I thought maybe this forum would be a bit more appropriate for this type of question?
For those of you that live aboard, where do you keep your clothes? Keep in mind I have an 8-5 office job and my Rangers hanging locker is full of shirts and jackets. The v-berth shelves are lined with rolls of clothes, towels, etc. I then still have under seat storage options.
The C36 I looked at had a tiny hanging locker with a lot of space taken up by air conditioning ducting. There are some drawers, but after seeing what keeping paper in my Rangers drawers will do to them, I'm scared to see what happens to my socks and shirts! And from what I can tell, under seat storage has been acounted for (2 tanks, batteries, plumbing, etc. ).
Just curious!
We were live-aboards for years aboard our previous 39' cruising boat and our 36 MKII has a good mix of storage. Most of our clothing is located in the forward cabin bins, TV cabinet drawers, and the two hanging lockers / drawer units. If you're not storing cruising-quantities of food and drink, then the areas behind and under the settees become viable. There's also storage in the four louvered cabinets in the salon and two bins located under the mattress in the aft cabin. Finally, the shelves in the forward and aft cabin are also available. If we had a large amount of hanging items, installing a wooden dowel fore-to-aft up high in the aft cabin might be viable, realizing (like most folks) that the aft cabin becomes a closet.
Insofar as things getting wet or moldy in the these areas, we've not observed this.
Nick Caballero
Retired C36/375IA Mk II Technical Editor
I have lived aboard for 7 years now, and worked a full-time job all that time. I keep my work clothes in the car. That way they don't smell like "boat clothes" at the office.
In the boat, I have an Home Depot portable air/conditioner-dehumidifier. I route the exhaust air hose out the rear starboard porthole. This keeps the interior at about 65% relative humidity, on days when it is above that...which is a LOT here in Miami. No interior corrosion or mold so far. This was a pleasant surprise.
The air conditioner fills a 5 gallon bucket with water in about 12 hours (still blows my mind how much water is in the air here). I dump the bucket in the sink twice a day, only coz I'm trying to keep a dry bilge. (There is another forum thread on that subject and I have more to add to it regarding my new Greybeard mini-bilge pump soon.)
Ben Ethridge
Miami, FL
1984 MK1 Hull# 263