hello again, I have found a new way to store my boats. I figured that if I had a "shelf" that would stick out from the wall I could rest my boat on that. Headspace is a consideration, as my wife parks her car there too. So, not wanting to have her hit her head on an empty shelf, a fold up model would work. I had a little design figured out on paper and I headed to the hardware store, thinking plywood, twoXfours and hinges. I always walk every aisle in the store, being a technophile, and I stumbled upon shovel hangers. They look like this, but have two prongs 2 inches apart |________, | for about a three inch spread total. The back plate mounts with two wood/masonry screws and is about 4 inches wide to distribute weight over the stud and sheetrock. The prongs flip up on the back plate and out of the way when boatless. To protect the boat from prong induced deformation, I went to the local wakeboard shop that I knew carried Hyperlite Wakeboards. Hyperlite boards are shipped in heavy card board boxes and the tips are protected by large foam pads that are shaped like so. ___ | | | | the pads are 1 in. thick and sit atop the prongs great. The prongs have no problem holding my weight 150lbs. - I did a pull up to test it and then hung there for a min or so. SO, I bought two of these shovel/ladder setups $3.99 each I placed them 6 feet apart - fore and aft of the cockpit with my Wavehopper resting on its rail. Note, this boat has very thin flexible plastic walls, and is supported completely by the strength of its rails. It is an incredibly easy set up. Albeit more expensive than my $1.29 rack I still use for my other boat out at my parents house, during winter break when the pool is closed. Note, now I have a crowded garage. 4 well used bikes hanging from ceiling, 3 kayaks (1 is a friends) properly stored on the walls, all my camping gear - backpacks, stoves and etc. hanging or on shelves, my pickup storage box, a couple suspended armchairs (extras), couch and endtables too; not to mention the Honda 4 door Accord that insists on parking there everynight with room for her to shimmy out her side. Apartment garages are not as big as you might think. (I am waiting for her to "slip" this winter and ram the car into something I love). My wife is coming down hard, saying "if that new toy won't fit in the garage with my car, then you can't have it." Is that fair? Well, hope someone finds this new rack idea useful. It's worth not paying the extra $25 for another garage. Later, Phil Huck small time Canuk smuggler living in Fargo ND __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Speaking of storage.... Does anyone have suggestions for a pulley system that would allow me to hang our boats from the garage ceiling? I'd like to drive in with boats loaded in the saddles on top the car, lower some loops from above, hook them around the boats and haul them up, out of the way of the garage door when it opens (the ceiling is high enough to allow this). I'd like to have just one pull rope that would haul both ends of the boat up, or down, at once. Any engineering minds out there that can give me a workable sketch? I can go from there.... :-) Karen *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 10:39 AM 10/04/1999 -0700, Phil Huck wrote: >Apartment garages are not as big as you might think. >(I am waiting for her to "slip" this winter and ram >the car into something I love). > My wife is coming down hard, saying "if that new >toy won't fit in the garage with my car, then you >can't have it." Is that fair? Need you ask ;-0 Hi Phil et al! Here is a suggestion which will ease automotive alignment in a crowded garage. Get a tube of cheap tennis balls, a length of stout string, and a few large tacks. Position the auto optimally amid the contents of said garage. Contrive to thread about 6ft of string thru each of the tennis balls (the awl on a Swiss army knife works well), and knot the end. Tack the string to the ceiling of the garage in such a manner so as to have 2 tennis balls suspended along each side of the car just ahead of the (front) doors, and the third just touching the windshield in front of the driver. Guided by the balls, repeatable alignments are a breeze, in fact, you will probably find that the single ball / target in front of the windshield is adequate once you are used to it. In the event that serious car / content damage will result from overshooting the target, a plastic parking curb is probably a worthwhile investment. ($40 in your choice of colors from McMaster-Carr Supply Co, cat. # 46985T21, (630) 833-0300, www.mcmaster.com) ByeBye! S. GMGSE (Grand Master Garage Stuffer Extraordinare) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 15:16 10/4/99 -0600, Steve Jernigan wrote: [snip of a great suggestion] >In the event that serious car / content damage will result from >overshooting the target, a plastic parking curb is probably a worthwhile >investment. ($40 in your choice of colors from McMaster-Carr Supply Co, >cat. # 46985T21, (630) 833-0300, www.mcmaster.com) >ByeBye! S. GMGSE >(Grand Master Garage Stuffer Extraordinare) cheaper solution there, a sand bag ;-) that's how a friend "trained" his son not to drive through the back wall of the garage ;-) mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/paddler [index of Paddling websites I manage] Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club, Colorado River Flows, Poudre Paddlers The Colorado Paddlers' Resource, Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. --Pablo Picasso *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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