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[DanaPT]

I had a wild hair and picked up a used outback on the forum. Now I have two kayaks (i will eventually sell one of them).

for about 1 week I had them side by side in the garage. Hard to do anything in the garage since they were in the way. Making things worse I really couldn't access them easily.

I needed a storage solution.

I Poked around on line and liked the idea of hanging the yaks on the wall on their sides. My pops was in town (a very clever man). We discussed and then off to Home Depot. I bought 2 X 10 ft sections of 3/4 inch steel pipe, 8 bolts @ 1/4 x 2 1/2 s & borrowed a pipe bender.

I Cut the pipe into 4 x 5ft sections and did this.
- hammer flat one side of the pipe about from the end to 6 inches down.
- Drilled two 1/4 inch holes in the newly flattened ends
- Bent away. Used a metal wired hanger as my template
- Bolted the bent pipe/racks on the wall.
- Hung kayaks.

What I still need to do is trim-down (shorten) the racks. I trimmed about 8 inches from the bottom hangers. That makes mounting and un-mounting way easier.


All said a very in expensive fix to storage.