While my sister was
here, she slept in the salon area. Our
dinette was made into a bed. Before
putting everything back together, I totally reorganized the storage spaces in
the salon area. Actually, Dave likes to
call it the saloon area.
We have one storage
area under our starboard settee, but it is behind the table and hard to
access. We had canned foods in there
that we bought in December. At the time,
it was the only empty compartment. But
you can guess how many times we went
into that area for canned foods.
On the port side of
the salon, there is a bench seat with one compartment behind the back cushions
and 2 under the seats. We had
miscellaneous things shoved in there.
SOOOOOOO, I emptied
all the compartments, sorted everything by need of accessibility and similar
use. Listed everything that went into
each compartment, decided what could go into our storage unit while we are
still here, and what could be thrown away.
And ended up with room to spare. Now I have a "pantry". Yippee!! Because we think we will need to stock more
provisions for going to the Bahamas. We
think we'll be there 3 months and we are told that provisions are expensive or
nonexistent in places.
We have storage space under our bed in the forward cabin-the V berth. So as we were storing our guest bedding back into that area, we reorganized that, too. We also cleaned mildew off of shoes and bagged them before storing them again :(
We have an
application on our phone called "what's on my boat". So I plan to use that to list what is in the
compartments. The first photo was taken in the middle of the process. I thought of my friend, Cheryl, as I was doing this. She would look at it a a puzzle and how does everything fit. This is also why you don't just stop what you are doing and go sailing when the wind is just right. You have to put away your "toys" before you can play a different game.
Dave rounding up friends to join us for dinner.
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