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Sticky Fingers

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As documented elsewhere, we picked up our new boat yesterday (Bav S40 HT). Leaving aside the obviously sailing-related things that we don't need, we took all our boaty kit and stores with us to set the boat up for use. The cockpit lockers are very small and awkwardly shaped. Where does all the stuff go on a 44' motor boat? Or have I got too much?

Examples of things without an obvious home:
  1. Fenders, when they're not in use
  2. Fresh water hose reel
  3. Deflated dinghy
  4. Charts and pilot books etc
  5. Toolkit
  6. Long thin things like boathook, deck wash brush, moorfast
We had to bring the hose reel and dinghy home. Fenders are in use obviously.

Just wondering what people tend to do. Less is more I suspect.
 
Fenders in the anchor locker? charts and pilot books we used to keep in lockers under the saloon seats when not in use? same for toolkit as i didn't like having loose items in the engine bay.

Deflated dingy will be tough. we bought the smallest possible one and it went in the locker designed for life raft (which we didn't have) either that of snap davits on the bathing platform but im not a fan.
 
Many boats have fender lockers, I'd be surprised if your's didn't and more surprised if they were of a size that you felt comfortable with. Mine they'd have me use are too small imo and so I use fender baskets which allows me to carry 8 instead of 4. Nothing says get out of my way I am coming through quite like 8 fenders covering all compass points as you enter a marina.

Tenders are meant to be inflated and in davits. They are completely useless otherwise as you stare at the bag while sipping gin and contemplating the effort not of having to blow it up but worse still pack it away when done. Sort that out as a matter of urgency
 
Fenders. Anchor locker is teeny tiny. Has the windlass at the top and an aperture big enough for the chain to emerge, you can get an arm in there but that's about it. No lazarette. Liferaft locker wil have a liferaft in it shortly. No fender lockers, or if we do have them I failed to detect them yesterday :) Baskets would certainly be a solution.

Tender, we've got a hi lo platform which sounds great on paper, but inspecting it yesterday it's much narrower than the stern of the boat, which is frustrating and makes boarding from the side or around either end of a tender quite difficult. Probably going to be the answer though.

Toolkit, I've stashed it for now in a locker in the saloon but it's not ideal.

Boathook storage - that's a good idea. Could go under the hardtop. Something like this you mean?
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Scala said:
As documented elsewhere, we picked up our new boat yesterday (Bav S40 HT). Leaving aside the obviously sailing-related things that we don't need, we took all our boaty kit and stores with us to set the boat up for use. The cockpit lockers are very small and awkwardly shaped. Where does all the stuff go on a 44' motor boat? Or have I got too much?

Examples of things without an obvious home:
  1. Fenders, when they're not in use
  2. Fresh water hose reel
  3. Deflated dinghy
  4. Charts and pilot books etc
  5. Toolkit
  6. Long thin things like boathook, deck wash brush, moorfast
We had to bring the hose reel and dinghy home. Fenders are in use obviously.

Just wondering what people tend to do. Less is more I suspect.
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Aside from the deflated dinghy(but I do have an inflatable kayak, and paddlebaord) I fit all that easily into my 25 footer, so with a 44 you really have no excuses ?.

Fenders and cockpit cover go under a hatch in the floor, around the fresh water and sewage tanks.

Hosepipe, tool kits, spares in lockers under the seats.

Boat hooks x 2 under the rear seat horizontally across the boat

Books etc in small locker in the cabin.
 
Nice problems to have, but are you sure you've bought the right boat :), it seems quite limiting for a 44ft, all what you have described fits fairly easily in my 25 footer. Surely there must be space for storing fenders, hose reel etc. Tender on davits as Bruce has said. Anyway enjoy your new boat.
 
Scala said:
As documented elsewhere, we picked up our new boat yesterday (Bav S40 HT). Leaving aside the obviously sailing-related things that we don't need, we took all our boaty kit and stores with us to set the boat up for use. The cockpit lockers are very small and awkwardly shaped. Where does all the stuff go on a 44' motor boat? Or have I got too much?

Examples of things without an obvious home:
  1. Fenders, when they're not in use
  2. Fresh water hose reel
  3. Deflated dinghy
  4. Charts and pilot books etc
  5. Toolkit
  6. Long thin things like boathook, deck wash brush, moorfast
We had to bring the hose reel and dinghy home. Fenders are in use obviously.

Just wondering what people tend to do. Less is more I suspect.
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My boat having an aft cabin is very scant on storage.
My fenders go in the dinghy.
And you have to be disciplined.
Anyway carting stuff around costs you money now. Discipline is good!!
Yes less is more.
 
Fenders have three options

1. Leave them out. Watch people shake their heads is dismay as you swan past at 25+ kts only meters from them. Remember your a mobo now so play to the strengths!

2. Baskets on the rails on the foredeck.

3. We have a line which runs through the bottom of the fenders and when you leave port you pull this line taught and this brings the fenders up horizontally ish and keeps them secure.

Tender - we keep ours on the foredeck when it’s inflated outside it lives in a storeage bin under the rear sun bed.

Hose - under the rear sun bed.

Boat hook - have a look under the edge under your rear sun bed. We keep ours here with some clips.

Photos available if required.
 
Thanks, the clips for the boathook etc is a great idea I'll do that regardless of where they go.

The hose - I've now bought a collapsible one which hopefully will be small when packed away though I don't know how you get the water out of it to collapse it ...!

Fenders, to paraphrase Simon Cowell, leaving them out is a resounding no from me... but baskets I'm OK with, and a mate has suggested using short bungees to keep them in place whilst inboard but still tied to the rail, that might work.

Tender needs more thought especially as we want a biggish one and the hydraulic platform is much narrower than the boat (at least 0.5m)

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That's only about 3m wide.
 
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