Mine is a Grumman aluminum 17’ at 75 lbs. Long wood screws onto fence + weather resistant ropes. I then thread ropes through insulation foam tubes, which were bought from plumbing department of Home Depot. Or use pool noodles. Then add weather resistant tape to strengthen foam tubes.
For cold winter and plastic canoes, you may want to wrap tarp around. Spray UV protection solution 303 in summer.
Traditionally it was felt that plastic kayaks should have the biggest weight impact in storage kinda on their sides. They are usually stronger there than on the deck or the hull. But I could name exceptions. Just make sure that whatever they are on is soft, not hard for example if straps pad the traps. That kind of thing.
Hatch covers will be safest inside. Sometime over the winter treat them with 303.
@l2t said:
Don’t like the idea of leaving the hatch covers off. I live next to the woods and critters (mice, chipmucks, squirals, coons, mustkat, beaver, etc.) are everywhere. Would thoroughly drying, then hanging outside upside down, hatches and cockpit cover on, support at four points on foam be okay?
No I understand but we have Valley covers and if left outside below zero they crack… Mice do manage anyway to gnaw through my Sterilite containers. Last year they shredded three PFD’s. It seems the more snug the space is the more they like it.
Added long feet on this because when I pull it out of water on the decking I put nose up and slide the 22’ Libra XT 100 lb. Feet are 6’ 2x6 so it doesn’t tip them over from sliding.
Looking at the broad leaf plants in the last pic, I should emphasizes that I’m in New England where it gets well, below freezing. While It typically won’t be in the single digits except during cold snaps, a really cold morning could be -8F.
I dig them all up wash and store in basement of my another house. All that canis and elephant ear bulbs. Fill my 8’ pickup truck bed with a crown. Hundreds of them. Lots and lots of work. Every year I say last year.
Thermoform’s tough. I kept one Eddyline boat outdoors all winter, resting on a couple of well padded shelf brackets screwed into the side of my garage under the eave facing south. Hatch covers and cockpit cover on, deck facing the wall. Uncovered, but did put 303 on the hull late fall after it was washed and thoroughly dried. Kayak overwintered just fine and is now paddled by its new owner. That’s where my Samba will winter, but the other two will have more posh accommodations at a community pool which offers kayak storage.