If you have questions about weather routing or navigation, you’ve come to the wrong place. But, if you’re looking to find some ways to make your life on board a little bit easier….we’ve got a few ideas for you. Each of these have been tried and true on our sailboat Twig.
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Look Above
Whether you live on a sailboat, on an RV, or in a tiny home, you have to get creative about storage. One of the biggest “head slapping, omg that’s so obvious now” places that we’ve created storage is the ceiling. Say what? Yup, the ceiling. We keep our spare lifejackets in a cargo net…
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Get Hooked
One of the first things that anybody notices on Twig are the convenient hooks that we have everywhere. “I’ve tried everything, and can’t get them to stick, and I don’t want to drill. How do you do it?”. We tried everything too. We screwed in hooks. We used command strips. We tried a bunch of…
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Sail in Movie
It’s amazing what a movie under the stars will do for morale on a boat. As long as you’ve kept the bugs in check with a thermacell, the whole crew can rally around the drive- in atmosphere of an outdoor movie. Well, duh. Of course everybody would enjoy that. But it sounds expensive. Not so. …
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Ginger Ale in the bathroom
The ginger ale is in the boy’s bathroom. I don’t know how many times that we’ve heard that strange statement on Twig. You see, we live on a catamaran that was first put in service as a charter boat. Charter boats cater to four couples splitting the bill on a weekly cat rental, and therefore…
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Ammo Cans
Tricked you. I’m not even going to touch the subject of guns on board. What I will talk about is ammo cans. They are relatively small, water proof, stackable, and have handles. Basically, they’re the perfect small item storage solution for your boat/rv/tinyhouse. We have about a half a dozen of them on…
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Streetch Horton, Streetch
Ropes and fancy knots are the go to solution of the ages for sailors needing to tie down just about anything. That’s all well and good, but sometimes we’re looking for something quick and easy and we don’t want to hunt down a 5ft piece of rope. That’s why we keep a ton of bungees…