Real men (and women) play with dollies.

The Ranger has proceeded to get heavier as strips have been added to the hull. Most builders who start in on building a canoe don't move it while it is being built. There are two major reasons:

1. The forms might move, altering the hull shape.
2. The forms and hull are both awkward and bloody heavy.

For the most part, we've developed stiff, albeit slightly heavy, strong-backs on which the forms are placed and the boat is ultimately built. While there isn't much of a substitute for manhandling our way up and down the stairs and in and out of the storage barn, our trip across the parking lot has been made a bit easier by a gift of two furniture dollies that are in the picture above. Once we're out of the the building, we simply place the strong-back onto the dollies and roll it over to the barn. The only thing that I'd probably change is to have larger diameter wheels and something to "key" the strong-back to the dolly so it doesn't slide around. Other than that it's perfect.

Brains over brawn any day.