Before your provisioning day arrives, you need to have your lockers labeled so you will know just where you stowed everything.  I can tell you for a fact that stowing anything away and not recording just where will lead to weeks of frustration as you attempt to find some important item.

Years ago, I purchased shaft zincs at the last minute, just before we cast off they got stowed away but I failed to note where.  Two months later when I needed one I could not find what I knew I had purchased and brought on board.  I spent the next 14 months looking for them without success.  It wasn’t until we were hauling out for the winter and emptying all the lockers on board that I found them.  They were within 3” of where I thought I had stowed them but just one layer deeper than I ever looked, thinking the items stowed just above them were the very bottom of the locker.  I was wrong!

This past year I have been looking for two 3’ lengths of Stainless-steel All-thread I brought onboard. Haven’t found them yet.  We will be again emptying out Malaya in a month or so when we haul and I will likely find them then.  Frustrating, I know they are here and Malaya is only 40’ long but where I stuck those rods is a mystery.

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Use a labeling system that makes sense to you and your crew, especially the cook who will be accessing food lockers daily.  Making a map of your boats interior locker space will help, especially if there is a locker within a locker.  On most of the boats I have owned I have opened up dead spaces, some of which were within other lockers and created more storage.  These lockers might be under a false floor in a hanging locker or as on Malaya a new but smaller water tank created hidden locker space under a settee back storage locker.  Showing these hidden spaces on a map will make finding them again easier.

 

I cannot stress enough how important a locker by locker inventory is, especially for the cook.  This person is going to be looking for food items on nearly a daily basis and having everything listed in an inventory and in labeled lockers will reduce the time they need to spend searching.  An inventory of spare and rarely used parts will save you money as well when it comes time to repair broken and worn out gear.  Being able to look in at an inventory list and then putting your hands on the item you need will save you from having to go purchase the item again only to later on find out you already had it onboard.