I had a semi crazy idea to get large culverts and bury them along the creek bank to store our kayaks in. It would be right by our floating dock so should be really easy to pull them onto the dock or back up into the culverts for storage. The culverts arrived today but I've not buried them yet. I wanted to share the idea and see if anyone else had any thoughts or tips.
The large culverts are 36" interior diameter. I plan to cut them to create 3 culverts, something like 17', 15' and 8' feet matching the size of various kayaks.
I also have a smaller 12" culvert to store the sailing mast of the hobie island.
One question already is the Hobie Compass is being supported fully by its sides against the culvert vs. the bottom of it. You can see in the pictures below that it looks like its floating in the middle. It is still easy to pull in & out like this but do you think it would damage the kayak? I could put a piece of plywood or something else to create a floor halfway in the culvert for the compass to rest on and probably store a smaller kayak or other equipment underneath that.
Here are pictures of everything so far.
https://imgur.com/a/8EDBLtt