Not being able to see where and how he stores is canoe, it is hard for me to make a suggestion, but, I can tell you what I have seen here on one lake that I thought was pretty clever. The guy's home was up a bank a good ways and he had railroad rails leading from his boat storage garage down and into the lake. He took the tires off his boat trailer and had the railroad rails positioned the same width as the trailer wheels. He had an electic winch located inside his boat garage and had it hooked to the boat trailer. When he wanted to use his boat to fish, he would engage the electric winch and it would allow the boat trailer to go down the railroad rails into the lake where he would unhook the boat and go fishing. When he returned, he would run the boat up on the trailer, hook it to the trailer and go up to his home and then he would turn on the electirc winch which would haul his boat and trailer up the rails and into his boat house. With the tires off the rims and the rims on the rails, his boat and trailer would track up and down the rail and never came off. I thought this was just pretty darn clever....
Warren
Fly fishing and fly tying are two things that I do, and when I am doing them, they are the only 2 things I think about. They clear my mind.