Long term storage of a wooden canoe, suggestions?

[ken mueller]

I would like to hear from anyone with ideas of the best way to store my canoe. It will be in my garage, but due to lack of space, I have to store her tipped up on the gunnels against a wall, rather than hanging or on horses. I am concerned that being in this position might cause some distortion to the hull.

 

[chris pearson]

How's about my garage? Problem is, you may not get it back!

 

[Giiwedin]

See this thread.

http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?p=16715#post16715

 

[davelanthier]

How about hanging it at both ends with rope, on its side and against the wall, so that the center of the lower outwale just barely rests on the floor?

 

[mark wismer]

I would like to hear from anyone with ideas of the best way to store my canoe. It will be in my garage, but due to lack of space, I have to store her tipped up on the gunnels against a wall, rather than hanging or on horses. I am concerned that being in this position might cause some distortion to the hull.

I kept mine for 6 years in my MIL's garage w/ short loops of cord from each of the thwart/ inwale junctions up over a nail...the tips protruxded into the stud cavity & it was up off the floor...never hurt anything...It was in worse places before her garage...

 

[jrghaven]

How about the living room...?

My Old Town is currently sitting in the living room - makes a pretty good coffee table. I wish I was kidding - don't have a garage and the basement is a bit damp. So in the living room it remains...

Oddly enough, I've considered buying a second Ikea coatrack:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40099792

then weighing down the bottom somehow so that I could store the boat up higher and out of the way, resting along the top of the racks, along the wall. The risk of the racks tipping is a bit high though - if the bases were connected with 2x4s and firmly attached - it might be a viable solution, plus you could use the 5 feet of clearance below the boat to store things. Would take a bit of work to get it stable though. And a pretty big risk of the canoe taking a serious tumble and hurting someone (i.e., me).

 

[Douglas Ingram]

Oh, you have to post pictures of that!

 

[ken mueller]

If the canoe is in the living room, then I'm the one in the garage!!

 

[Benson Gray]

My Old Town is currently sitting in the living room - makes a pretty good coffee table.

This is not an unusual place to store canoes. The thread at http://forums.wcha.org/showthread.php?t=3219 shows two canoes inside my house.

Benson

 

[pklonowski]

Long term storage

A friend of mine installed a couple of wall-sconce type shelves in his family room, not far from the ceiling, and his cedar strip rests on them...

If I could get my wife to agree to this, I'd do the same. Instead, I'm paying for long-term storage in a warehouse, for my '46 Otca, until I can start work on it.

I'll take an 800 square foot house with a 6-car garage, please.