[Rhodes22-list] Video: Storage Solutions

[Peter Nyberg]

Silverheels has finally been launched for its first season on the water with my wife and me.  Two things kept the boat on its trailer in my yard longer than expected. First, about a month ago I managed to lose my balance and fall off the boat, breaking my collar-bone when I hit the ground.  Second, we hope to use the boat for cruising - voyages of up to a week long.  This would require bringing along a lot of ‘stuff’, so some thought and effort went into figuring out where to put all of this ‘stuff’. And, of course, having a broken collar-bone slowed this project down a bit.

I’m sure I picked up many nuggets of inspiration for all this in the trolling through the list archives that I did over the winter.  And Kim and I have both read Mary Lou’s chapter in ‘Sailing Small’ several times, so some ideas for provisioning have doubtless come from there as well.

Anyway, making YouTube videos is just something I do now, so there’s a video about some of the storage solutions we’ve come up with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXNDjEH-MYg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXNDjEH-MYg>

The next project is becoming better and more confident sailors.  Practice, practice, practice, I figure.  It’s going to be a long summer.

In case anyone is wondering, the location of the video is Pine Island Marina in Groton, CT.

Peter Nyberg
Coventry, CT
s/v Silverheels (1988/2016)