So excited and so annoyed (How I'm almost a kayak owner)

[Serendipity]

In preparation for my trip to Canada next week, I set out to find a cure to the whistling. I simply wasn't going to listen to a tea kettle going off for 12 hours! I saw a few random mentions of adding tape somewhere, but nothing specific. Yesterday we looked around and determined that the sound had to be caused by air coming under the boat and through the saddles. We jammed a towel under the boat and between the saddles and it was quiet as could be! Give it a try, your ears will thank you!

NoNo - a couple of things...first of all, where in Canada are you visiting? Wherever it is, welcome!!

Secondly, if I understand your comments about the whistling, the sound results from the space between each saddle and the kayak, so filling that space (at least partially) with a towel is what you did? Wow, sounds like an easy fix - gotta try it! Thanks.

[NoNo]

I'm heading to Go Home, ON to visit a friend. I very badly need a vacation and when he sent an invite I was more than happy to take him up on it!

Yes, that's precisely where I'm talking about. There's no noise when there isn't a boat, so I figured there had to be something happening under the boat. I guess when the boat is on there, the air gets forced between the saddles and the metal housing for the hydraulics.

[Serendipity]

Had to Google that location - Muskokas are beautiful!! Enjoy.

Will try the extra padding on the saddles to try and cut down the whistling. It was tolerable for the half hour or so driving on the weekend but any longer than that I'll be the one whistling...