Tired of tripping over riggers in your boat bay? Riggers do tend to pile up at this time of the year--and sometimes year-round, if your boathouse has a lot of pair/doubles or four/quads that come with a whole second set. Here is a pretty simple hack that creates a spot to get those riggers out from under foot until it is time to put them back on the boats.

Take an 8 foot length of chain, an otherwise unused section of the boathouse wall, and then hang the chain from the wall (or ceiling). The riggers, in pairs or full bundles of four, can then hang from the chain, clearing up some prime floor space.

There are lots of ways to build a rack for extra riggers, of course, but this is a pretty easy build and takes up next to no room when it is not is use. Using only 2-3 feet of wall space, your length of chain easily holds 4-5 shells worth of riggers.

The chain in this photo is hung from expansion bolts placed into a cinderblock wall, but even a hook driven (well!) into the ceiling would do the trick. Securing it at the bottom keeps the whole thing from swaying as folks walk past.

To hang the riggers on the chain, this hack just uses a short rope with a metal hook, looped around the bundle, but you could use a "seat bungie" to hook through to the chain just as easily.

With this hack, you are just a length of chain, a few pieces of hardware, and zero pieces of lumber away from having those pesky riggers up off the floor. In no time, you'll have more room to let folks stretch or, more likely, just some of extra space to start piling up all the other stuff that boat bays tend to accumulate.

How do you stash stuff at your place? If you have a clever hack for rigger storage, we'd love to hear about it. Share your tips--and hacks--in the comments below.

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