Larry wrote, > > > > > My major limitation is that I have no place to store > > >boats, so I guess I'm going to have to move. :-) I'm down to a basic > > >aluminum canoe - but when I buy the yak I will store it in the living > room > > >if I have to. Others have chimed in with encouragement -- let me add my experience. I lived in a smallish townhouse for several years, and to keep the "living room" floor clear of boats, resorted to the following: Two 8-foot clear fir 2 x 4's, fitted with plywood-gusset-reinforced, carpet-covered 27-inch arms, at 90 degrees to the vertical supports. (Had room for three of these arms, but only needed two sets at the time.) Lag-screwed to studs in the wall, **right through the sheetrock** at the top and bottom of the 2 x 4's. Bombproof. Esthetic (in a bachelor-pad kind of way). Cheap. Drawback: demands a seventeen-foot wall! When I moved out, I just spackled up the lag screw holes and no one was the wiser. It is critical that you hit the studs squarely. A rip-out would be an expensive embarrassment! Since that time, I moved in with my SO, and found a buddy who let me construct an 8' x 8' x 20' heated storage unit at his place, where the 4 yaks now reside -- and the supports described above went along for the ride. Still bombproof! -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 22:33:13 PST
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