Garage Door Paddle Hangers
I admit that a lot of the solutions I come up with are somewhat Rube Goldberg affairs, but this one at least is pretty simple. I wanted to hang my paddles on my garage door, but couldn't find any hangers to work. I saw some 1 1/2 inch flexible spa tubing and figured it would do the trick.




Doug and Joanne Schwartz have a similar arrangement. Here is how they describe it:

Doug and Mark both found similar approaches to storing paddles. We too have lots (straight and bent shaft, long and short touring, fat surf/whitewater blades and canoe) of paddles in both wood and composite materials - and a desperate need to keep them organized. Can our snowboards, skis, snowshoes and all the poles be far behind? Ten paddles of any size from 50cm canoe paddles to 240cm touring paddles fit in the lower two sections of our garage door, plus in the thin very low edge section. This leaves us with the upper section (filled with windows) and the next section still free for snow toys. To accommodate the bent shafts and some feathered paddles, and to be able to change the location of the clips without re-drilling into the door, Doug mounted sets of clips onto wood pieces, which in turn are mounted "permanently" on the door. Clips are made from inch and a quarter PVC from Home Depot, cut with beveled edges at the correct angle to hold the paddle in when the door is in either the up or down position. The edges of the clips are beveled and there's an extra hole drilled to allow a screw driver to fasten the clip to the wood, as the cut out does not align perpendicular to the door. The secret is in the placement of the PVC cut-out to hold the paddle securely but gently enough to allow easy access, and to hold paddles in all door positions.