algale wrote:jsburger wrote: Al,
I understand your issue with wanting to put the canoe over the stair well. I think everyone is over thinking this.
Two barn door rails attached to the ceiling, barn door hanger skates with ratchet pulleys attached. What ever length of track you need and whatever track width to clear the light. 8' light, 16' canoe ??? perfect spacing for a sling. Track long enough to reach out to the the garage floor. Make a sling, put the canoe in it, raise it up to the ceiling and push it over the stair well. Piece of cake.
It MIGHT/b] be a little more expensive than all the other suggestions but so what. I am sure it will be a lot less than you spent building that canoe.
I still would love to paddle that canoe. What a beautiful job you did.
First things first: Thanks for the kind words about the canoe. C'mon east this Spring or Summer and we'll go paddling (sorry, no moose to my knowledge in Maryland)!
Now, as to storage systems, you may be right about the barn door rails. A rail system in conjunction with a hoist of some kind was my first intuition and I'm still open to it. But all the hardware you mention is stuff I know less than nothing about, including where to source it. When I started researching what hardware I needed and where to get it, I got very intimidated, very quickly. Hence, I fell back on designing something in wood. Feel free to provide further education!
Thanks again!
Al
I would use two of these...
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ironman-8-ft ... /203350936
and one of these...
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Ironman-Zinc ... /203350913
The only thing you need from the hanger kit is the two skates. I would attach an eye bolt to the vertical hole in the skate to hang the pulley.
