Re: [Paddlewise] "no place to store a boat"

The living room is a great place to store a boat!!  I had one in my living room
for years and it was a great conversation piece plus I had to make sure the
bathtub ring was always cleaned up and the boat was at it's most presentable..
Especially when my mother was coming to visit.  :-)  Now I have a few boats in
my garage, and a few bicycles.  (Hey, my mom even helped me build the racks.)  I
am looking for a new boat, kevlar.  Guess where it will have to live (the garage
is full!)?  Yep, in my living room.  I have the spot all ready.  Oh, another
plus, if you leave the cockpit cover on, the cat loves to nap there.  :-)

One additional piece of advice though, beware of lamps.

Alice


> > 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.
>
> Larry
>
> Just wanted to let you know [as some others have on the list already] you
> won't be alone with the yak-in-the-living-room arrangement.  My brother -- a
> doc in Fort Myers FL -- stores his yellow 16' 10'' Current Designs Gufstream
> in his living room on a wooden rack he built.  Fact is -- I think it looks
> great in there!  I'd have mine -- a 17' 7" Solstice ST -- suspended from the
> ceiling in my bedroom, but I couldn't get it to fit -- no matter how I tried
> to angle it.  I guess I don't have to tell you the neighbors thought  I was
> nuts when they spotted that boat -- half out of my bedroom window!  I wound
> up having to build a canvas-covered A-frame structure to store both of mine
> and three others, if needed!  Heck -- if you lived near here -- I'd let you
> put yours in there too!!!
>
> Anyhow -- don't forget to keep those coasters at arm's length!  Sure
> wouldn't want any Kool Aid or beer rings on that new yak of yours now would
> we?!?  <<grin>>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Jim Tynan
> Pike Road AL

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