Closing on a new home this month.  Want to purchase a canoe hoist for the garage.  We'll have 11 foot high ceiling in the garage so plenty of space.

Does anyone have any recommendations on a decent hoist?  Not looking for anything flimsy that may break and drop the canoe on the concrete floor....

I've helped people install DIY hoists for ladder etc but the same principal works for a canoe.

  It can be a easy as what OS said, but for a few extra bucks you can get something that has a built in safety feature that locks the rope in place so you can't accidentally drop the canoe on the floor.
 
  If you had 8 ft ceilings and for some reason you let the rope go to soon. you could reach up and catch one end of the canoe to maybe the whole thing and either stop it or guide it down softly.

With 12 ft ceilings your probably going to hang it up 10 ft or so. It falls accidentally, that's much harder to catch/control.

This is rated the #1 hoist. For the price it's worth the look. Another thing is to make damn sure when you mount the brackets the screws are into the center of the joist/truss. If the trusses don't work out distance wise to where you want to mount the hoist, you would have to mount a 2x6 spanning 2 trusses and then install the bracket.

  You would be surprised how many people mount something from the ceiling think it was sturdy only to find they were not in the center of a truss and it all came crashing down. 

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I prefer a trapeze - two 2x4s each hung on two lines - and canoe sits upside down on them.  Keeps dirt out and I can store a few items on seats.  Rope and pulleys from Home Depot.

BillConner wrote on Feb 6^th, 2023 at 12:53pm:


That canoe/kayak hoist I linked to has a 2 prong hook that holds the strap. You could hang the canoe upside down just as easy as right-side up.

Or you could do the trapeze thing with and hang each end of the rope off the hook.

Biggest thing is that safety brake. I would discount the value of that.

Whatever PK chooses and uses I'm sure he'll do a report on it so others can benefit from it.

db,
That's a great way to do it but PK said he had 12 ft ceilings in his new garage. It sounds to me he wants to hang his canoes so they don't take up sidewall space AND you could park your vehicles under??