Clamp means and support for skis, in combination

In combination:

• A. a pair of skis, and
• B. a support means for the skis for use as a car top ski carrier and as a work holder for holding the skis during a sharpening operation and during bottom repair of the same, comprising:
• said pair of skis including, a first ski and a second ski, each ski having a congruent bottom with opposite longitudinally extending edge zones and said edge zones comprising metallic bottom edges,
• said support means comprising a first and a second support, each including a rigid support base with a top surface having a planar zone and each support base having a bottom surface including downwardly extending friction means to engage a support surface, and each of said first in means being of an overall height sized to locate the planar zone of the top surface at a predetermined common height above said support surface,
• each of said supports including an upstanding portion extending medially of the planar zone and each upstanding portion having a top surface and including a first and a second vertical main side surface parallel to one another and at right angles to the planar zone and of an overall height which is less than the minimum distance between the longitudinally extending edges of the skis when the skis are in confronting relation with their respective bottom surfaces being mirror images of one another,
• friction means on the top surface of each of said upstanding portions to engage a ski during bottom repair os same, and
• U-shaped clamp means for clamping said upstanding portion between each of said pair of skis, each of said clamp means including a first leg and a second leg in spaced relation to one another joined by a base zone;
• said base zones of said clamp means each including an inside surface and an outside surface, and the outside surface includes a loop portion defining a pass through opening and strap means are included extending through the opening and having outwardly extending ends and hook means on the outwardly extending ends adapted to engage a gutter about the roof of an automobile.