Any of you guys use a winch or electric hoist to store your kayak in the garage or shed?  My ride 135 is a bit heavy and i'm lazy.... so i'm thinking about getting a 400lb hoist from Harbor Freight for about $80 and using that to get my kayak up.  I have high ceilings in my garage, like 15 ft tall, so i'd like to hoist the yak up to the ceiling....  just not exert too much energy in doing so....

just curious if anyone else does something like this?

Thanks!

I keep mine on saw horses in the back yard.

I keep mine on saw horses in the back yard.

 

if i did that, then the thieves would get two good saw horses two  

i wish i had a good pull around type back yard... then i'd have a lot more options.  just thinking this would be a good way to do it....  i tried to rig up a pulley system but it's still a lot of awkward weight to pull up and hold to tie off and all that jazz

Is the $80 HF hoist $50 better than the Amazon or Dicks systems?  

 

http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Garage-Utility-Pulley-Storage/dp/B005ATYKIE

http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/product/index.jsp?productId=11468858

 

I almost wish I had a garage now....those look pretty sweet.  I use a trolley and wheel it around to the back yard.  I pull a blue tarp over it....thieves around here aren't smart enough to figure out what's under it....yet

Got my hoist for like 20 dollars from amazon. Haven't installed yet

I use two gambrel and hoist pulley systems from Harbor Freight for my canoe:

 

http://www.harborfreight.com/gambrel-and-pulley-hoist-99758.html

 

 

 

For my kayak, I have a wall storage system.

I think the HF hoist the OP is thinking of is motorized.  Ones listed by others are pulley systems.

Yeah sorry guys, I may not have been crystal clear.  I was talking ultra lazy, super simple (motorized).  I actually picked one up last night and already set it up in my garage.  pretty freakin' sweet too!  just have to figure out the right straps/platform to raise it up on so that the kayak goes up even.  right now it wants to go up nose first.

hope to have something ironed out on it by the end of the weekend and can maybe follow up here with pics.

Pics!!!

Pics!!!

 

better late than never right?  sorry for the poor lighting and all, but you get the idea i think.....

 

That's slick!