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OK, here are several photos of my rope locker arrangement. I mounted a pair
of fore-&-aft 2×4 x 18″-long beams across the base of the inside of the
combing, spaced a little wider than the hatch opening. The 2×4 pieces are
installed with their broad sides facing each other, their ends secured with
plenty of thickened epoxy, very strong. Through these 2×4’s I drilled two
1-1/2″ (??) holes and a third hole 1″, evenly spaced, and through the holes
I passed (removable) hanging bars – two thick wood dowels like you’d find in
a hanging locker, and one length of stainless tubing (just because I
happened to have these pieces laying around at the time).

Forward of and below the 3 rows of hanging lines are two big buckets full of
mostly dock lines, the coiled lines easily grabbed when needed. Also, I can
lift out these two buckets in seconds, opening up enough space for me to
climb in there to access the steering quadrant, etc. forward of a 2-part,
removable plywood bulkhead. To starboard of the hanging lines you can see
the chain locker bucket, which contains the stern anchor’s rode & chain fed
in from a deck pipe through the cockpit combing above it (2 photos attached,
made of Home Depot PVC for maybe 5-bucks). Alongside that “chain locker” is
a pile of assorted, coiled lashing lines & small stuff. Along the forward
edge of the hatch opening is a hanging rack for small stuff, with some shore
power adapters laying on the shelf.

In the photos showing the chain locker bucket you can just see a corner of
my (blue Sunbrella) boson’s chair. When not in use, it lives on the “shelf”
formed by the long hanging bars, along with a couple of other thin things
that I can squeeze up there.

Altogether this transformed what was originally a deep pit full of tangled
lines and assorted paraphernalia into a reasonably organized and very
functional rope locker.

Tor
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Silver Heels, P-424 #17
http://www.SilverHeels.us
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OK, here are several photos of my rope locker arrangement. I mounted a pair of fore-&-aft 2×4 x 18″-long beams across the base of the inside of the combing, spaced a little wider than the hatch opening. The 2×4 pieces are installed with their broad sides facing each other, their ends secured with plenty of thickened epoxy, very strong. Through these 2×4’s I drilled two 1-1/2″ (??) holes and a third hole 1″, evenly spaced, and through the holes I passed (removable) hanging bars – two thick wood dowels like you’d find in a hanging locker, and one length of stainless tubing (just because I happened to have these pieces laying around at the time).

Forward of and below the 3 rows of hanging lines are two big buckets full of mostly dock lines, the coiled lines easily grabbed when needed. Also, I can lift out these two buckets in seconds, opening up enough space for me to climb in there to access the steering quadrant, etc. forward of a 2-part, removable plywood bulkhead. To starboard of the hanging lines you can see the chain locker bucket, which contains the stern anchor’s rode & chain fed in from a deck pipe through the cockpit combing above it (2 photos attached, made of Home Depot PVC for maybe 5-bucks). Alongside that “chain locker” is a pile of assorted, coiled lashing lines & small stuff. Along the forward edge of the hatch opening is a hanging rack for small stuff, with some shore power adapters laying on the shelf.

In the photos showing the chain locker bucket you can just see a corner of my (blue Sunbrella) boson’s chair. When not in use, it lives on the “shelf” formed by the long hanging bars, along with a couple of other thin things that I can squeeze up there.

Altogether this transformed what was originally a deep pit full of tangled lines and assorted paraphernalia into a reasonably organized and very functional rope locker.

Tor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Silver Heels, P-424 #17
http://www.SilverHeels.us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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