[Public-List] Looking for ideas to organize cockpit lockers

[Roger L. Kingsland]

Rachel,

Love the wastebasket idea and think I will give it a try.  I also wondered
if one could put some kind of plastic Sport
Court(http://www.sportcourt.com/) tiles at the bottom and sides of the
lockers to provide ventilation under whatever gets thrown in the lockers.

Best, 

Roger 148  



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Subject: Re: [Public-List] Looking for ideas to organize cockpit lockers


On Jun 20, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Bill Wallace wrote:

> Does anyone have pictures and/or ideas to share on how to organize your
cockpit lockers for cruising?  ...  I'm thinking of using lidded buckets for
line, electrical, hose...

One possibility that is relatively quick/easy/cheap and can either be used
long term or at least help you refine ideas and placement before making
something more permanent is the relatively tall/rectangular wastebaskets.
Places like Lowe's or Home Depot have some fairly "officey" type ones that
are space efficient and consistent (i.e. they don't taper too much, have
huge rims, or etc.).

I like that they are tall - this helps to use the space if you aren't going
to make separate first and second "floors."  Also they are soft enough to
kind of moosh into place and don't tend to abrade/scrape/make noise on the
hull as much as harder things (5-gallon buckets) can.  You can pull them out
easily to sort/clean/access, and they can be used for soaking laundry or
whatever too. They also stack if you have an empty one.

Along similar lines I often used gallon milk/water jugs with the lid hole
cut off (just leaving the handle and swooping down to a somewhat lower edge
in front) to organize caulks and various other things - they would "moosh"
into an odd shaped locker, even if said locker was not the shape of the jug.
And a handle to pull them out.

More "carpenterly" solutions are nice too, but the wastebaskets allow you to
start getting things organized so that if you do make something more
permanent you have a better idea how to design it.  Or you can just keep on
using them.

Rachel
ex-#221
(should never have sold it!)
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