October 2008: Dad bookcase project

Another project in October was to find more space to store books aboard the boat. In fact, in our preparation for leaving finding more storage space and getting rid of things that we are not using has become a regular task aboard the boat.

My dad helped with the book storage by taking two areas above cabinets on the boat and building rails so we could use this space to store books.

I took pictures of the areas, gave him the dimensions, he built the rails back in his workshop in Texas and then mailed them to Marathon. Luckily he is great with wood working unlike his son....

To the left is the port cabinet before that the top was pretty useless for storing anything at sea. To the right is the finished port cabinet with the rails installed and books in place.

To the left is the starboard shelf before and to the right after with storage for more books.