Canoe storage solution for a vaulted ceiling

[Benson Gray]

If you have a marine supply store with a large vaulted ceiling and want to display many canoes then the image below may offer a solution but I'm not sure that I would recommend this. More creative minds may be able to offer a humorous caption for this image.

Benson

 

[MackyM]

Very cool photo. Any idea when this was taken?

 

[Fitz]

That's not a marine supply store. It's a candy shop!
Neat photo. Thanks for sharing the photo.

 

[Benson Gray]

Any idea when this was taken?

I would guess that it is from the late teens or early twenties based on the outboards to the right. It has nothing written on the back and it was in an Old Town Canoe Company file with some other old pictures that do not appear to be related. It is also curious that most of the canoes do not even appear to be Old Towns.

Benson

 

[1905Gerrish]

What are the wheeled items on the left?

 

[MackyM]

So that's what those are. The knob on top of the flywheel is to spin the motor to start it and you try to stay away from it while it is running?
Ant idea what the wheeled units are on the left?

 

[D_Sabine]

Looks like the old 'one lunger' marine engines on the left.

 

[Greg Nolan]

. . .spin the motor to start it and you try to stay away from it while it is running?

Imagine something loose getting into the holes in those outboard flywheels, or even worse, into the spokes of the flywheels on the one-lungers. Our ideas of reasonable guards and safety design have come a long way in the last hundred years.

 

[thompsonboatboy]

beautiful photo

 

[Ed Moses]

I do believe that the "wheeled units on the left" might be water pumps. Note the pressure tanks that get progressively larger along the line of pumps. Small ones in the foreground. Don't believe marine engines had those attached.

 

[Benson Gray]

The progressively sized engines on the left look a lot like the one at http://www.smokstak.com/gallery/files/2/6/1/antique_engines_020.jpg which doesn't appear to be a water pump. The outboards on the right are probably early Evinrudes like the one shown at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpH_LvEr1l4 from around 1913.

Benson