Re: [Paddlewise] kayak storage

I suspend my kayak from the garage ceiling on its side with a very simple, 
cheap system that has worked great for 4 years. Get two hooks from a hardware 
store that are designed to screw into wood. Drill pilot holes in the wood 
beams of the garage ceiling and screw in the hooks. Have the hooks far enough 
apart to support the boat in the strongest sections of the boat. Buy two 8 
ft. nylon straps with cam locks that are designed to strap a plastic kayak to 
a roof rack and use these as the slings. You can start with the straps having 
very large loops so they hang low to load the boat, and then slowly raise the 
boat as high as needed by progressively tightening the straps by pulling  the 
straps through the cam locks. You can easily unload the boat with one person, 
but getting the boat into the 2 loops for loading is best done with 2 people, 
but possible with 1 person. I have used this system with both a plastic 
sit-on-top and a glass closed deck boat. Works great with both, and the total 
cost is about $10-$12 U.S.

     

In a message dated 2/10/02 4:23:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Heike_Robinson_at_lakeland.cc.oh.us writes:


> Now I have to come up with an idea how to store
> the boat in a relative space-saving manner in our 2 car garage.  I was 
> thinking
> of a system to suspend it from the sealing on the side of the garage,  so 
> the
> boat would hang sidewards.
> The next problem is the transport.  What is a better system?  A one-kayak
> trailer or a Yakima/Thule roofrack? Which one of these two is better? Has 

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