By the end of our 8-day 200-mile cruise in June with Spartina, Dawn and I could easily find items stored in the various hatches. Having penciled in on a storage map at least a rough idea of where things were hiding was especially helpful at the beginning of the trip. We had both contributed to packing the boat in a bit of a hurry.
This version of the storage map shows where everything finally came to rest after a whirlwind of packing and a day or two of sailing. This figure is only intended as an aid to finding stuff, and as an aid to thinking about where to put things next time. Unlike a detailed checklist, it does not say what exactly is in the "tool kit", for example. We picked up this idea from the Log of Spartina blog by Steve Early. Here are links to some of Steve's posts about storage:
In one of those posts Steve said "I'll laminate this drawing back to back with a sheet of info about marinas, hotels and some other material and tuck it in with our charts."
Index of the day-by-day trip reports on Log of Spartina:
--Paul
Great beginning Paul! Looking forward to more...
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Nice crisp blog... love it!!
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