Anyone who boats knows space is at a premium. Even with a liveaboard-size boat, stuff like diapers are tough to store, let alone hide. Hanging lockers exist, but there aren't many, and they're typically only good for... hanging. You can't hang diapers. Or, can you?
Until recently, my solution was keeping bags of diapers stowed away in the trunk of my car, and carrying a few down the dock every couple of days. I've always had a nice collection of diapers on display, so keeping them in the trunk of my car doesn't feel quite right.
I've been looking for a better solution, but it's been difficult to find one.
The boat has a small number of lockers and other places to store things, but most are designed for things to hang in them, and almost all are (by design) conveniently located in public spaces easily accessed by vanilla visitors. (I like my boat to be 'tour ready' at all times - you never know when someone is going to ask if they can have a look, and I don't want to be running ahead hiding 'baby' stuff.) The underbed storage I used at my apartment won't work here, since the boat's fuel tanks are already under the beds. And hanging things in the shower only works if I don't want to take a shower on the boat. (After a night in a soaked diaper on a hot boat, having a shower is a godsend).
After a shit ton of online searching, today I brought home two hanging closet storage racks from Bed, Bath & Beyond. They fit my hanging locker almost perfectly - it's almost like they were meant for it. The best part is that they both swivel around - I can stuff them with Pampers and powder and all sorts of things, and then turn them around so nosy visitors see only a cloth hanging contraption.
I also like the side pockets - they're the perfect place to stuff a dozen or more rolls of duct tape. Y'all know what I'm talking about...
This is the perfect solution for me, but it might also be a good solution for any ABDL with a closet and a desire to show off your diaper collection yet keep them 'hidden' - in plain sight, as it were.
I have a few other ideas for the boat, and will share them as I go along.
In the meantime, if you live in or will be visiting upstate New York, I'm in the process of setting up another ABDL Boat Day... email me... abysitter@gmail.com!
The 'hanging locker' is right in the doorway to my stateroom.
Vanillas love to open it as they tour the boat...
My new hanging diaper storage fits at least 70 diapers.
More if I stack them sideways.
But look!
Turn them sideways, and the diapers become invisible.
Turn them all the way around and you see nothing but fabric.
The side pockets are for shoes.
But they make the perfect place if you have a collection of rolls of duct tape.
And bottles, pacifiers, baby powder, and other things
fit nicely here.
Does anyone else have ideas
for storage that might work well on a boat?
Hit me up!
3 comments:
OMG I was just looking at this but thought it was too small to fit diapers. What size are those, and do they fit well? It looks perfect for them. I'm a medium/large.
Looking at this now.
Just bought the last ones at the store here.
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