Room For Stuff 1

Marathon, FL
No LL

Yesterday I helped my friend Dennis on Noble House. I noticed that Dennis' tool box was very much smaller than mine. On the other hand, I've noticed still other boats devote much larger fractions of their storage space to tools and spare parts than I do. I remember one which used almost all the places where we store food on Tarwathie for spare parts. There's no set formula. Everyone equips themselves as they see fit.

Anyhow, the though prompted me to think about the things we do store and how much room they take. Below are the estimates I worked up for Tarwathie. Volumes are given in cubic feet and cubic meters. Note that the estimates are for the size of the containing lockers. Most of them are less than half full of stuff. Note also, that estimating those volumes is very hard and subject to error. Nevertheless, the percentage numbers should hold.


To relate the total volume to something in your house, consider a walk-in clothes closet 6x6x8 feet (2x2x2.5 meters). Our total on board storage is about 83% of that.

Another comparison:, our total storage volume is about 135% of the inside of a minivan.

You may think that small, but we consider it generous.