Can SOTs sink?

We learned within the first 3 years
of living here along the river, not to leave our boats near the shoreline. We have garaged them and all equipment ever since.

Still every year someone near main roads by the water report missing kayaks. You’d think folks would learn, but they don’t. Some like to come by water, w/a cohort, at night and make off with other folks property.

If you’re by the water, have kayaks/canoes/paddle boats, purchase or make an inexpensive set of wheels with tubing (plastic or metal) to fit your stuff, put your unit on top, fasten with a bungie and “cart” it up to the house. Small wheels can be purchased a local or big box hardware stores. Unless you like losing your stuff.

As far as PFD’s, I found some old metal closet poles at a garage sale, nailed them to the bottom of a shelf hubby put up for some of the yaks and hang them up on hangers to dry. Keeps them from sun rot, they last longer, and we know where they’re at. Grandkids live next door and the rules are, “you or friends use them; put the boats back where your found them, hang up the PFD’s, paddles are separated & go in the cut down plastic barrels” as they do get dropped in the sand at times. You don’t follow the rules, don’t ask again as we have too much invested in the boats and equipment to have them stolen from ‘prying eyes’.