During the winter, when we didn't go out often we would store our 3 Hobie kayaks on their sides up against the garage wall on slings. However during the summer we would typically take them out pretty much every weekend so it was a bother to store them in the garage on the racks. We have a fenced in yard compound so we typically would just put them on their sides leaning against the fence, we had them in an area where there was no direct sun exposure, (under a date palm tree). Result we had mud stains on the sides of all the boats, and flat spots on the sides where they sat against the ground. Didn't seem to hurt anything, and the flat spots went away after we stopped storing on the sides, but the mud stains were permanent. Also once in a while the boats would be covered in fire ants, which made going out very interesting. If we left the hatches open to dry the boats out, squirrels would hide tons of nuts in the hull, (they were date palm nuts, that really stink and draw lots of bees, both yellow jackets and africanized honey bees (both are deadly). LOL basically if you go near the boats, you die, so we went back to storing in the garage, (true story). Wasn't such a good idea after all, still trying to live that one down with the wife, (7 yrs later). FE
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