Mark Sanders wrote: > A lot of people have written here describing different ways to store > their kayaks, but I haven't heard any novel ideas about storing paddles. > Here is the solution I came up with; I wonder if people out there have > better ideas. Pictures would be nice too! > > http://www.sandmarks.net/garage.html Mark, that is very ingenious. Hard to improve on that. I have a garage with a tall ceiling (11 feet!!), so I bought one of those metal racks for hanging mops and suchlike with prongs on 4 inch spacings, and hang mine vertically. Horizontal space on my garage walls is at a premium, so this is a good solution for me. I hang my kayaks slung from pulley and rope arrangements lag-screwed into ceiling joists, which saves wall space. The critical part is locating the dead center of each 2 x 4 joist. I also found that 1/4-inch D hardware was not sturdy enough, and that 3/8ths is OK. I run the free end of each pulley system over to a fixed pulley at the ceiling/wall join, and then down the wall to a cleat, also lag-screwed, in this case to a wall stud. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sat Feb 16 2008 - 20:26:46 PST
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