I finally decided how to start a thorough stern to bow inventory of our sailboat contents. Sounds simple enough, but if you are living aboard while trying to do the inventory, you have to find a place to put the stuff that is in the way of getting to the stuff you want to identify, count and maybe even photograph. I decided today was the day. I removed all of the bedding, including mattresses and memory foam pads on top of the mattresses. This is an opportunity to vacuum and clean the berth (bed) platform which houses storage lockers. There are three storage lockers under our bed in the aft cabin–starboard, center and port.
Our starboard locker houses one of our batteries, old life lines, and scraps of teak wood for repairs or leftovers from previous owner alterations.
The center compartment holds a fairly new plastic black water holding tanks (yes a holding tank for poo), the depth sounder and steering mechanism for the rudder.)
Port locker sans contents.
The starboard locker holds more old life lines, and something that appears to be our knotmeter (boat speedometer.)
I take photographs as well, because I may have misidentified an item that my husband is looking for and there are just too many mystery items on a boat to identify them as thingies. The port locker has items that may not respond well to shifting heavy objects, so I have opted to store our winter blankets there along with dry bags and duffles.
So, along with a list and a map of areas and the names I have given each locker, the inventory continues.
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