How do you store your boat?

Guys/Gals:

I have all of mine inside a 15' by 50' storage unit. It is REAL nice not worry about UV or dirt or winter green slime.

Doug Snell

Hobie 17 "Stress Free" #007
Mystere 4.3 #149
Sunfish

did you ask a question or answer one?

Both. Just curious.

Doug

In my garage... Trailer fits with 4 inches to spare and the mast just fits hung under the rafters at an angle. I do have a prindle that winters under a tarp outside.


A side note, my wife thinks I'm nuts that I'd rather park outside than keep the boat out there. I was told in no uncertain terms that her car had to fit in there, or the boat couldn't. Luckily I have a big garage. 27'x26'

I have the Hobie 14 in the garage hung from the ceiling now, and the 5.2 is outside under a tarp. I wish I could have it inside but I can't just don't have room. The garage doors are only 8 foot doors so to get the nacra in something would have to be done.

I keep having to explain when big hail storms roll in why I take my Nacra out to my grandfathers barn rather than my vehicle.

on the trailer <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Mine are all on trailers. Just all inside. OH well I didn't nedd that $250 a month (LOL) <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Doug

Oh so you meant, where do we store our boats? lol me - in a parking lot. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

What is winter green slime? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

tied to the ground at the sailing club

Doug are you bragging, a 15 x 50 storage unit near where I live would command probably in excess of 60K UK pounds rental yearly, to buy it with a small entrance and yard would be in excess of 600K, now thats a lot of boats and holidays. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

On the beach with the mast up 12 months a year in Delray Beach, Florida. By the way the cost is $200 a year, a good enough reason to consider moving.

On trailer.

trailer, side yard, $o.oo per year.

My hulls, beams, and mast winter on the trailer with full covers on the hulls. With the tramp off, the hulls can be wrapped completely and get no sun damage (also, no snow load on the tramp). Every other removable part is removed and stored in my garage. Come spring, I reassemble everything. Since I touch every part, I can check everything for wear and tear.

Mary:

Over the winter here in Texas (I guess because of humidity) here we get a nasty green algee on the boats outside, not counting the UV damage and just plain dirt and grime. It is so NICE <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> to just wash the sand off at cleaning station and put it away after a hard day of sailing. Also nice to have extra security of no one messing with boats.
Doug

Driveway, under a tarp, $0.00. My homeowners association has a rule about visible boats so the brown tarp and ti plants camouflage it pretty well.

My wife just made me move the mast from another part of the house, which kinda gives away what’s below. She’s agreed to make up some brown covers.

Martin:

How do you keep the ice from ruining the hulls <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />

During the sailing season the boat (Hobie Tiger) is stored in the garage on the trailer. My garage is 22 ft wide and 31 ft deep. Deep enough to keep the mast on the trailer and wide enough to park a car along side. The winter months are different though. The boat is completely disassembled and stored in the basement. I've removed the sailbox and wheels/axle from the trailer. I then tilted the trailer sideways against the wall and tied it in place. Now I have room to park all vehicles inside and not scrape windshields when it snows <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wayne:

Guess I am just lucky. They are up to $290 now. She just gave me a break because I have been there so long.

Doug

It was close getting the mast in the garage. It almost had to go through a window into the basement. My wife was actually ok with having it hanging from the family room ceiling, after I told her a replacement was almost as much as I had paid for the boat itself.

I am definitely not enjoying the scraping and super frozen car every morning, but didn't want to take the chance with the boat in the elements. We have about a foot of snow on the ground right now. I do have winter storage lined up for next year already.

30 x 50 metal building with concrete/fiberglass floor. Fully insulated. ALL toys fit in it!

Bob <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Outside, mast up with good tramp covers. Polish is all the hulls get. My Paper Tiger did that for 15 years and had little ill affect.

Oh. by the way mast up on beach means undo strap, sail up and I am a gone burger.

On the beach, mast up, $5/month. Can't beat it with a hotstick.

-Rob V.
Panama City
Nacra 5.2

In the carport, under tarp--much to my son's dissatisfaction, who would rather park his car there for some reason. Hey, you gotta have priorities... <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Stiletto currently on trailer at club not too many places to keep 36'(mast) x 14' wide, usually in water ready to go at any moment. H16 in yard on trailer, not too worried about it, 25 years old and still in 1 piece.

Clayton

Acat goes in the garage (the only reason I havent torn this building down yet is that it houses my boat.)

HT gets unbolted and goes in the heated basement, the hulls fit perfectly on a set of plastic Home Depot folding saw horses. One hull goes on the folding shelf part of the saw horse, the other on top, fits perfect, like it was made for them.

Masts hang in cellar.

Trailor stays in the yard.

What's a basement??? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

the thing under the house?

the red clay?

In Loosianna, dey be called "indoor swimmin' pools."

HA, HA! U funni, but probably correct. Especially below I-10 here in the south. There is one house here that has a "basement", but the house is 5' above the ground and closed in below. I would just call that a crawl space... to each his own though.

Basements here would almost always have a sump pump running, my place near the lake has an elevation of 5' ASL. Of course I built the house at 15' ASL just in case! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

We don't have basements nor do we have snow... we'll do without the basements and you can keep the snow, Brrrrrr.

Clayton