sorry, grandma, but to me a bunch of stuff on the deck of a boat looks like "a
pile" to me.

the
portabote and the stuff to put it together both stored on the deck,
that means that it is 'in a pile' as if that was an unsightly and
inappropriate way to store it. The portabote has mostly been stored
along the lifelines and that's the way a lot of people stow them.

We have a whole bunch of stuff on the deck (as we do have a larger
boat) because we are cruising, which includes jerry jugs for fuel (2
for diesel and one for the outboard), two outboards, two folding bikes
in bags, the air bottles for scuba in a box, and a couple of solar
panels. We also have our docklines and hose on pinrails. The
portabote stuff is in a sunbrella bag which is also on the deck.
Currently it's under the staysail boom on the cabin top, but it could
also go on the lifelines if we didn't have the jerry jugs there.

If there are two people there, shouldn't both of them
help?

and if one person is doing it, it takes longer
Probably true, but I doubt if it takes 3 times as long if one is
reasonably efficient.

Why would you want to do it any other
way?

because I don't want to store all that stuff in a pile on deck?

Having all the stuff gathered in one place does NOT equal to storing
it in a pile on the deck.

It's like anything else that you store. You put all the things that
go together into a storage place together. You put the things you use
a lot on the top of things you only use once in a blue moon.

We have all the oil and antifreeze and engine stuff in one locker. We
don't store tuna fish cans in there with it. We have all the dishes
and pots and pans in one place and we don't put misc. tools in there.
All the bread and paper products go in another locker (light stuff
together) and if we have heavier stuff it goes on the bottom. Bob has
made several canvas bags and they keep things together that need to
stay together.

Of course he's a big advocate of a place for everything and everything
in its place. He's got a pegboard in the garage with outlines on it
of the tools that go there.


grandma Rosalie








grandma Rosalie