I started telling my wife you cant count kayaks or canoes as boats shortly after I started accumulating boats. She has accepted this as a fact. So for me I have a lot less boats then you guys !
Brandon, help please! What was the winning argument? Have tried this path with my wife, and been told that I am allowed to add any additional canoes or kayaks if and only if I build, without spending any money, an additional boat storage building. (I have been looking a lean-to design I could construct with poles I could cut out back and spruce/fir tips as a roof.)
For now, any canoe, kayak, or small tin boat purchases are allowed so long as the boats are promptly driven north and stashed on remote brook trout ponds.
As for the count: 2 canoes and 2 kayaks in the barn; a MMB sculler in the barn; a 14 foot Lowe with a 15 in the garage; 3 canoes and a 12 foot john boat stashed in the woods in strategic locations I will only reveal to my most trusted friends. Looking for 2 additional remote pond canoes before spring--preferably 16-17 foot Grummans, which (a) stand up well to being dragged into the woods behind a snowmobile; and (b) are essentially bomb and vandal proof unless a tree falls directly onto them. (Which does happen--wish I'd taken pictures.) All plastic Old Towns from the annual scratch/dent/seconds factory sale in Old Town are pretty good, too, but the wooden thwarts will rot out over time.
2 lost pond boats,3 guide boats,3 canoe's, 4 kayak's. Hope that helps with the wife.