Trailering AI in upright position

So on July 23 I took a drive to pick p our Tandem Marriage Oasis. my drive was 70 miles. I also bought a Yakama roof rack.
On my way dow my Mpg was 44 Mpg .
I Drive a 2012 TDI Jetta. (diesel if you dont know your VW's)
On my way home I was shocked 32 Mpg >sad face< we were pretty bummed especially because we were about to embark on what would be a 2330 mile round trip to Nova Scotia.
The trip was out of this world and having our own yak much less a Marriage drive >happy face<
so we got home and took the yak off the car I drove around the great flat state of Delaware and found much to my dismay my Mpg was 35-36with just the rack on the car >very sad face<
Though of my hyper-miling antics, drafting tractor trailers and such and thought a trailer would draft my jetta just nicely and make it easy to load/unload, I found a Triton aluminum single ski jet ski trailer for 200.00 a hidden hitch install for 300 went to pick up the trailer and on the ride home my Mpg went up to 42 !!!! yea back to where I ought to be. Now to put the boat on it and take a ride.
Loading it on to the trailer........wow super easy.......wow. and after my 70 mile ride 40-41 Mpg Noicey nice!!!
So if at all possible get a trailer and go to Nova Scotia !!!!

Based on my own experience rwehuman, I would say that you figures would be pretty close to the mark. I did a 3,000 km ( 1800 mile ) trip a couple of years back. I decided to put the AI on the roof as it would cost about $200 extra to take it onto a ferry on a trailer. I soon gobbled up $200 in extra fuel by having it on the roof. The lesson for me was to do "all" the maths before leaving home, not just some of them.

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If only I believed my math teachers when they told me how important math would be.....

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And geography also, it's very painful for a grown man to admit that he's lost !

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Hi Sinking Ship,

I used a PWC trailer and added boards along with cradles for my TI. I saw other thread about using 1.25" PVC pipe to support hull LENGTHWISE along both grooved channels on the bottom of the hull.

I modified that design by bolting cradles to boards under mirage drive wells , But, I screwed PVC pipe sections in between cradles, lined up with hull channels and then covered PVC tubes with indoor Outdoor rubber/carpet entry rug fr Costco. Pads and reduces hull friction and scraping and supports hull for 10 ft length....along with TI cradles....seems to support hull well, all winter long