1/16 7:30 pm 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. I am a bit of a lazy, unorganized lout, and my paddles always seemed to be scattered willy-nilly about my garage. As every bit of wall space already has something leaning against it, I decided the garage door was my last chance to get some order to my 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 Sanders www.sandmarks *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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/ ***************************************************************************
While hanging your paddles from your garage door is an admirable use of space, be aware that it is not a good use of energy. Unless you don't raise/lower your garage doors? Every time the door opens or closes, the additional mass of the paddles has to be accelerated which causes your door motor to have to work harder, takes additional energy and adds stress to the system. It's probably a very small thing (maybe 6 pounds of paddles versus a 100 pound door?) but little things add up. Surely there is some non-accelerating space you could find if you looked harder. Mark Goff **************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living. (http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/ 2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598) *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
> While hanging your paddles from your garage door is an admirable use of > space, be aware that it is not a good use of energy. > Hanging *lots of stuff* on a garage door can be mitigated by installing stiffer extension springs, or adding preload to torsional springs in order to reduce the work the motor has to do - though swapping out springs/changing preload settings is not for the faint of heart. Those who hang *lots of stuff* on garage doors should also give some thought to maintaining horizontal trim of the door, by not excessively loading one end of the door. A bigger concern I would have is leaving some hard object close enough to the door so that the door clears, but the paddles don't. Hopefully the paddles would pop out of their holders, without any damage, and not catch on anything else....... A friend hangs all his paddles from the rafters to avoid deformation stresses on paddles that are stored horizontally or leaned against something. A loop of utility cord around either one blade of a kayak paddle, or around the grip of a canoe paddle, and the other end either tied around a rafter, or looped/hooked into the bottom of the rafter ensure that all gravity-induced stresses are along the long axis of the paddle shaft. I'm not as picky - my paddles are stored more or less vertically, inside a fiber drum in the back corner of the garage, behind the boat rack. Erik Sprenne *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
The effect is more academical than real. I wouldn't worry about it. Rafael Mexico. -----Mensaje original----- De: owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net [mailto:owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net] En nombre de Goffma_at_aol.com Enviado el: Lunes, 18 de Febrero de 2008 08:02 a.m. Para: PaddleWise_at_paddlewise.net Asunto: Re: [Paddlewise] Paddle Storage While hanging your paddles from your garage door is an admirable use of space, be aware that it is not a good use of energy. Unless you don't raise/lower your garage doors? Every time the door opens or closes, the additional mass of the paddles has to be accelerated which causes your door motor to have *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
On Feb 18, 2008 6:02 AM, <Goffma_at_aol.com> wrote: > ..... Every time the door opens or closes, the additional > mass of the paddles has to be accelerated which causes your door motor to > have > to work harder, takes additional energy and adds stress to the system.... > Motor? I just thought hanging paddles on the door was yet-another exercise option. Real paddlers don't need no steenkeeng motor. I don't think. LOL Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA *************************************************************************** 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/ ***************************************************************************
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