Deck Boxes

[S/V AMITY]

  Has anyone added deck boxes to the cabin top or fwd. of the front end of the cabin?  Right now we're stowing fenders & docklines in the port cockpit seat locker.  Seems a waste of dry locker space and is highly inconvenient for getting at the necessaries for docking.

[SV Azimuth]

Unfortunately I don't have a lot of details, but it appears that the folks behind the YouTube channel "Adventures Adrift" built a box forward of the dodger, under the boom, on their P367. I've seen them use it as storage and as a work bench in several of their videos. Here's a recent video of theirs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE6cYItZ9OY) that shows it from a variety of angles, though none of them up close.

[S/V AMITY]

  Thanks for the link.  Have been following Veruna for quite a while and have noticed that box.  Practical except it kills forward visibility from the helm.

  Current thinking on this end is to add low boxes on either sides of the cabin top aft of the mast and out of the way for fwd. visibility.  On the other hand, there is a huge amount of unused space in the transom area under where the propane tanks are stored.  Maybe hang the propane off the stern and open up the space in that locker to serve as an aft lazarette.  Got all winter to think about it... hauling this coming week for the New England winter.