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BRic
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Holds 4-5 paddles easily. Cheap and easy. Plus it folds up when not in use and I can also hang a pfd or three on it as well.
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SevenofNine
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quote mocha: "this seems to work for my paddle. 
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Nice!
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fitgers1
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quote mocha: "this seems to work for my paddle.
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That's sweet!
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fitgers1
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Ditto on the nails
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4keys
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How does everyone hang their canoe paddles? The 2 canoes are in bunk bed racks in a large metal shed, but we always have trouble hanging and storing paddles. We have 4 bent and 4 regular paddles. Any ideas?
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mocha
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this seems to work for my paddle.
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kanoes
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i drill holes in the blades and just hang on nails. :)
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ozarkpaddler
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I have a couple of paddle racks, one home made and one on the porch that was a commercial bought one. Here's the home made rack.
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Jackfish
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Campcook... what's the other use?
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tonyyarusso
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Two nails in the wall of the garage a couple inches apart. The handle of the paddle lets it hang on the quite nicely.
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Jackfish
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LuvMyBell
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Perhaps if I had high dollar paddles I'd take the time and expense to get creative. As it is I store my paddles (too many to count) in a rubbermaid trash can, handle down, blade up.
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pswith5
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quote whiteh20: "I made a rack for the man cave.
 " Sweet man-cave!! But they only axed about paddles.:)
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SourisMan
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kanoes: "i drill holes in the blades and just hang on nails. :)"
Genius! Why do I always complicate things? ;)
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PortageKeeper
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I drilled two 3/4" holes for dowels in the top plate of the wall in the garage, spaced for the handle to slide in and about 16" long. It holds all eight paddles with room to spare. The double blades are in the rafters.
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Jackfish
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SourisMan: "kanoes: "i drill holes in the blades and just hang on nails. :)"
Genius! Why do I always complicate things? ;)"
Wow, it’s been a while since Kanoes was quoted on here. RIP Jan.
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Soledad
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quote KevinL: "You guys have inspired me to do a project this winter. "
Good luck with your project: here are a couple pics of a rack that my father made for our cabin.
 
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yellowcanoe
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Nooses around their necks. Just use paracord so that the weight of the paddle is not on the blade. The other end of the paracord is tied to of course a good length nail or spike that is imbedded in the shed framing.
Enough height so they hang without touching the floor. Just like they used to out West.
The fancy ones are in the house but never never above a heating vent.
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Hangman
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Has anyone actually had a paddle damaged by just leaving them leaning up against the wall, resting on the blades ?
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Dooger
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Same here...
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rharjes
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I also just throw the paddles above the upside down seats, however, I'm inspired to do a project to get my paddles on display in my house somewhere now! I love Jackfish and Soledad's racks!
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Grizzlyman
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No pics, but I bought a bag of leather scraps at michaels/ hobby lobby/ Joann fabrics. It’s was like $10.
Then I attached spaced out thin leather loops to a nice horizontal piece of wood. You put the loop over the handle grips. I got the idea from REI and and how they were hanging their paddles. I’ve got 14 hanging in my garage. Works for bent / straight. I just hang the bent shaft backward so the blade tip touches the wall
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andym
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Hangman: "Has anyone actually had a paddle damaged by just leaving them leaning up against the wall, resting on the blades ?
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My worry wouldn’t be them standing up but if they fall over and then got stepped on or run over. My storage space is unlit and I let a friend store a boat in there over the winter. Wouldn’t want to risk stuff being in his way and getting damaged. My rack are just some tool holders mounted on the wall. I have ones that hold two paddles each and also hang a pair of hiking poles from each one.
Our plastic and metal paddles are just leaned up against the wall. Not going to worry about those.
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VaderStrom
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Just scroll sawed some U shaped hooks. Drywall screws into the wall with a countersunk hole in the wood.
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whiteh20
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I made a rack for the man cave.
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Oisinirish
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quote Abbey: "I have accumulated a few nice paddles (I'm a sucker for Sanborn's designs), and I have been hanging them vertically in "my" area of the house. My wife suggested hanging the three nice paddles prominitely over the couch in the living room, but only if they were hanging horizontally to fit the space. Didn't sound that difficult.
Started using two looped leather straps for each shaft, but the angled blade of the bent shaft paddles causes the paddle to rotate towards the floor and not hang "flat" against the wall. I can get it to stay in place with a leather strap around the blade, but the point of the hang was to display all of the great woodwork in the blades. Tried adding some non-skid drawer liner between the leather and the shaft, but still slipped.
Before I make a custom holder to secure the edges of each blade or some custom wooden shaft brackets, has anyone solved this problem a different way? "
Put a spacer on the wall behind the blade to stop the rotation?
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campcook184
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quote Jackfish: " "
I really like this, it also fits in with the "two uses for everything" theme...lol
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jwartman59
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nothing quite so fancy, homemade rack, paddles held on by a bungee cord.
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KevinL
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You guys have inspired me to do a project this winter.
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campcook184
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quote Jackfish: "Campcook... what's the other use?"
I was referring to the paddle as having two uses... the obvious one, and decoration..lol
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BWPaddler
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quote mocha: "this seems to work for my paddle.
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Love the biner hooks too... brilliant!
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MadMoose
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Its not elegant but I use a adjustable broom rack to hold mine.Works good though. 
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BWPaddler
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what about just sliding them on top of the upside down canoe seats while canoe is hanging in garage? Anything damaging about that?
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4keys
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Some great and creative ideas out there. We have about 12 paddles ( some straight, some bent, some kids size, and some old ones) and only 2 canoes, so storing the paddles inside the upside down canoe doesn't work, unless I want to remove all the paddles every time we use the canoe. Maybe for winter storage it would work.
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roling
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I had been thinking about how to hang my paddles efficiently, and saw your post. There are a lot of good ideas posted here. However, I am limited on time, money, and skill. I simply took a couple pieces of maple baseboards (4") and cut them about 28" long. I glued them together and routed the sides to add just a touch of style. Then I drilled pilot holes and screwed in some "U" wall mounts.
After rotating the heads and handles of my paddles, I could get 5 - 6 of them in a fairly small space. Since I had the wood and brackets I didn't have to spend any money!
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NotSoFast
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4keys, thanks for bringing this up. I've always just stood my paddles in a corner, but I can now see some kind of rack in my future. Great ideas.
Dave
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Flashback
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A friend with more wood working skills than myself, made this paddle rack from
a design I drew on a piece of scrap paper.
My other paddle rack is in the shape of a canoe, and has wooden pegs attached. The paddles are hung on the pegs with bungee cord loops, which are looped around the paddle's grip.
I need a 3rd rack badly. Paddles, like canoes can easily become a collection; always room for just "one more".
BOB
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sedges
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Hangs out of the way along wall of boat shop.
13 wood straight shaft
2 wood bents
2 wood kayak
1 composite kayak
2 spruce oars
1975 Epoke900 XC skis with bamboo poles
Need to pass off some of those straight shafts if I make any more paddles.
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Savage Voyageur
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quote sedges: "
Hangs out of the way along wall of boat shop.
13 wood straight shaft
2 wood bents
2 wood kayak
1 composite kayak
2 spruce oars
1975 Epoke900 XC skis with bamboo poles
Need to pass off some of those straight shafts if I make any more paddles."
Wow, you win. I just use a wall guitar holder.
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Abbey
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I have accumulated a few nice paddles (I'm a sucker for Sanborn's designs), and I have been hanging them vertically in "my" area of the house. My wife suggested hanging the three nice paddles prominitely over the couch in the living room, but only if they were hanging horizontally to fit the space. Didn't sound that difficult.
Started using two looped leather straps for each shaft, but the angled blade of the bent shaft paddles causes the paddle to rotate towards the floor and not hang "flat" against the wall. I can get it to stay in place with a leather strap around the blade, but the point of the hang was to display all of the great woodwork in the blades. Tried adding some non-skid drawer liner between the leather and the shaft, but still slipped.
Before I make a custom holder to secure the edges of each blade or some custom wooden shaft brackets, has anyone solved this problem a different way?
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prettypaddle
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Abbey: "I have accumulated a few nice paddles (I'm a sucker for Sanborn's designs), and I have been hanging them vertically in "my" area of the house. My wife suggested hanging the three nice paddles prominitely over the couch in the living room, but only if they were hanging horizontally to fit the space. Didn't sound that difficult.
Started using two looped leather straps for each shaft, but the angled blade of the bent shaft paddles causes the paddle to rotate towards the floor and not hang "flat" against the wall. I can get it to stay in place with a leather strap around the blade, but the point of the hang was to display all of the great woodwork in the blades. Tried adding some non-skid drawer liner between the leather and the shaft, but still slipped.
Before I make a custom holder to secure the edges of each blade or some custom wooden shaft brackets, has anyone solved this problem a different way? "
This is my current solution for hanging bent shaft paddles horizontally (two of our paddles are still not put away after our last outing). I cut and bent wire hangers so that the "hook" of the hanger holds the shaft of the paddle at the balance point. The distance between the hook and the wall is such that the paddle is held firm enough against the wall that the blade keeps it from rotating (to remove the paddle take the hanger off the screw in the wall then remove the hanger from the paddle).
Worked well for our apartment and now for our basement, but even with some macrame magic, you can still tell they're bent wire hangers. I'm also wanting to move them to above our couch in the living room, but came on here to see if anyone had a classier solution than mine.
Did you find a solution to hanging them horizontally Abbey? Anyone else?
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