I am interested in the responses. I rigged a pulley system with wide nylon straps to cradle the hull, and store it gunwales up. (This is in my garage) The advantage for me is that my paddles, pfd, etc., are stored in the canoe. I am convinced that I am not causing any damage to the canoe this way.
I use trapezes on pulleys for my spirit, stored gunwales down. Same thinking as Butthead.
A neighbor on my road who has a RX/PL3 canoe & also stores it in the garage has it hanging by one of its gunwales along the side of the garage. Gotta figure it'll deform at some point, it's just a plastic boat after all.
Haven't figured out how I'm going to store my next addition yet, once it comes home to roost, but I suspect it'll also be gunwales down.
When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known. - Sigurd F. Olson, "The Singing Wilderness"
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