Jerry Can Deck Storage Ideas?

[nquigley]

No worries, they have the integrity of a partial box structure. It is grand to be building something in prep for an adventure, ain't it?

I have just completed a tiny step-stool for the V-berth, and although the adventure is, uh, only sleeping, I feel highly worthy. Highly!

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Looks like you're making great use of some teak & holly panels remaining from the saloon floor job?

 

[Christian Williams]

Re post #20--Yes, and I am such a hero. Why, that step on the E381 makes all the difference! The V-berth seat works well, but when time for sleeping comes, it is moved up to fill the gap (photo). That makes for quite a leap in one's pajamas, without spilling the nightcap.

I cannot think of anything else to make with big scraps of teak and holly ply. It feels like a personal failing.

 

[nquigley]

I finally got around to installing my jerry can boxes and filled the jerry cans today - thanks for the design, Christian!
In about 10 days, I'm heading down the TN River toward Mobile AL (~800 miles of mostly motoring). The ~20-gal tank, plus 20 gal in cans on deck should give me about 400 miles range (+/-), so I'll be topping up along the way where possible and as needed.

 

[Loren Beach]

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I find it easier to bring up the photo page, from wherever it's at on this site. Copy the full URL. Paste the URL into my thread message.
Having double lowers really makes that idea work.

 

[nquigley]

"Page cannot be found"

I find it easier to bring up the photo page, from wherever it's at on this site. Copy the full URL. Paste the URL into my thread message.
Having double lowers really makes that idea work.

I tried to delete that second post after I remembered to add the pic to my original post above it. Can you delete it?

 

[Loren Beach]

I tried to delete that second post after I remembered to add the pic to my original post above it. Can you delete it?

Done.

 

[toddster]

Here's a photo of a setup I saw last year. Snapped it because I thought I might want to attempt to replicate it down the road...View attachment 48916
These are military style 5 gallon / 20 liter containers.

That is similar in some ways to my setup on Wild. I thought that the SS rail looked a bit more elegant than a piece of wood. Just a thought on that lower custom rail: Jerry cans come and go and the next ones you buy might not be exactly the same shape. Instead, I have coachman’s loops bolted through the toe rail (aluminum on Wild) for each can and nylon straps run up and over the cans. Still hoping to do away with most of them by installing a below-decks second tank.

But jerry cans turn out to be a necessary evil. With one or two exceptions, all of the fueling I’ve done in Mexico has been by dinghying and bicycling jerrycans from a (somewhat) nearby gas station. I carry four jerrycans in a dinghy load and two on the bicycle. So I’ll probably never get by with less than four. Or maybe two. Oh, plus a couple for gasoline (dinghy, generator, scuba compressor).