7/12/05 – Our outfitting department is undergoing some redecorating with the help of local carpenter Don Noyce. Yesterday’s big move was to take the paddle storage cabinets (known as the “paddle racks”) outside, where Don will weather-proof them. The two racks are so large that, after shoving aside all mobile shelving, a team of crew members and one very dedicated customer had to maneuver them down the stairs to the store, out the front double doors, and all the way around the building to the canoe yard. What an operation! Only a few people were squished into corners and impaled on merchandise.

The paddle rack in action. Count the pairs of feet: there are seven in all.