Kayak Hanger #1: Boat storage in a too small garage
I have 2 home built sea kayaks, one a Chesapeake 17 which is 17 feet long by 24” wide and the other a Sport Tandem which is 21’6” long by 22” wide. As my two car garage is also my wood shop/metal shop/motorcycle shop/bicycle shop/boat building shop/boat storage area I needed a way to store these two boats out of the way yet easily accessible. I kept them on a simple wheeled rack on the floor for a while, thinking it would be easy to wheel them out of the way when I needed the space for other things, then wheel them back in when the other task was done. The rack was an open frame made of 2×4’s, about 30” wide by 60” long and 70” tall, wi...
