[alanw]

If you're thinking of putting your rods in your front hatch for launches/landings you might want to rethink that. Trying to get up there on the water to get rods in or out would be a tough trick. The front hatch is hard to access while on the water but it's a great place to store items while transporting. Try just laying your rods down on top of the yak and bungie them down, perhaps with the paddle holder bungies. I think most guys just leave their rods in the rear rod holders for launch/landing although it's probably a risk of breaking something in case of a flip.


On the kayak carts, I bought one of those like you linked and it did not work well for the Stealth/XFactor hull shape. For me, the kayak rocked side to side on the cart because the "V" shape in the top of the cart was too straight for the shape of the hull. I like the "T" shaped carts better, and welded my own custom one up that fits perfectly in the molded tunnels in the Stealth and X-Factor hulls. Like this one http://www.kayakfishingsupplies.com/...el-Cart/Detail OEX can probably help you pick a cart that fits the X-Factor well.