Where do you keep the booze?

[fred1diver]

Hey everyone, getting ready to splash my Pearson 30 on Monday, I’m so excited, can’t wait to see how she behaves under power, never had an inboard before.
the mast will have to stay horizontal for a while as there is a crane operator strike in my area.
my question as the tittle says, is where do you keep your booze bottles on the boat?
the storage area behind my settees is to low for bottles to be stored, so I don’t really have much room left.

I was thinking about making hanging storage bags to be hidden behind the settee backrest, on the Pearson 30 that space is pretty much useless as it is not very deep.
so what do you all think? And what do you do on your boats to hide the booze?

 

[dlochner]

Where to store you bottles of adult beverages will be dependent on the boat. On Second Star there is a rack on the forward bulkhead that sits behind the fold-up salon table.

Bottles in cloth sacks rattle less.

From whom are you trying to hide the bottles? If it is from the powers that be, there is no safe place if they are serious about finding 'contraband'. Put the bottles somewhere not visible upon casual inspection. I'm assuming that Canada has prohibitions against unwarranted search operations.

 

[fred1diver]

Sorry if I made it sound like I was trying to hide them, just want to store them so they don’t break, I don’t have a rack on the Pearson, and there isn’t really any place to install one

 

[Ralph Johnstone]

And what do you do on your boats to hide the booze?

I NEVER hide the booze.
Too much chance of forgetting where I hid it and not finding it again. !

 

[Tally Ho]

Beer in the fridge, and on Tally Ho, my O’Day 322, I have a Cupboard that holds most of the hard stuff, and some small plastic wine bottles…it is stuffed pretty full, so nothing moves around too much. Never broke a bottle yet..

Greg

 

[rgranger]

At the last Marina that I had my boat slipped at, I watched a guy put a up a mast on a 30 foot sailboat by getting two other 30 foot sailboats to raft up beside him and then use the halyards from their boats to lift his mast. you just need to put a bridal that won’t slip past the spreaders and retrieving line to pull the bridal back down once your mast is up.

 

[kloudie1]

One of the things that I like about my old H-34 is the liquor locker built into the nav station. It has space for 6 bottles of spirits and glassware.

 

[David in Sandusky]

A half gallon of Scotch goes nicely with the dishes. White wine and beer in the ice box. Red wine under the settee.

 

[All U Get]

Box wines, of course we also have a dedicated wine storage area for bottles along the hull and use the bubble wrap that Amazon ships nearly item with. And if you forget to drink them, the corks will pop over winter leaving your boat with a pleasant rose’ odor with floral accents and a citrus finish.

 

[Joe]

Liquor box with dividers. Available at any liquor store. See if you can find a 2 x 6 or 2 x 4 box. I used to live in a well known wine making area and all the stores had them for out of area customers... so they could slide them under the airplane seat rather than baggage check. Come to think about it, probably can't do that anymore.... glass and flammable liquids....hmmm. Well... you'll just have to make your own out of sail canvas and Styrofoam. heh, heh.

 

[RoyS]

You just reminded me that I left a few cans of soup or something stored in the oven last year. No telling what happened to them over the Winter. Better send the wife to look while I am elsewhere. BTW be careful of your upholstery when storing red wine in case a bottle breaks while underway.

 

[Justin_NSA]

Maybe decant into those little airline bottles?
We have plenty of stowage space on the Hunter. Doesn't help you. The PO was apologizing for the lack of space. I said "are you kidding? We are coming from a Mac26S!"

 

[rgranger]

If you are worried about a BUI incident...

Some of the beaches here near Charleston have a no alcohol policy, so I premix my rum/coke drinks in the coke bottle before I head to the beach. So far we have never drawn the attention of the beach patrols. No alcohol containers = no cause for concerns.

 

[capta]

One of the things that I like about my old H-34 is the liquor locker built into the nav station. It has space for 6 bottles of spirits and glassware.

Back in the days when the nav station was used for navigation, keeping my favorite bottle of booze was pretty much mandatory. I mean, come on now, doing spherical trig multiple times a day would drive anybody to drink.

 

[Sailm8]

Our boat is a scotch boat. We decant into stainless steel storage bottles to avoid breakage. This lets us store them on their sides without fear of spillage.

 

[fred1diver]

Cool

 

[shemandr]

On my H356 I always thought the buildout above the navigator's table would make a good bar cabinet. I think the fixed VHF was mounted there. But the rest of the space was wasted as far as I could tell.
Plastic bottles are a Godsend. Wine boxes worked very well. Some fit well into the quarter berth shelf on our Ranger. Sorta like a tap room. The empty bladders made great ice bags too.

 

[Benny17441]

Don't follow the need to hide the booze, all I worry is about keeping them secure so they bottles do not break. Here in the US a sailboat is considered a 2nd home and not a car and you can have opened liquor bottles in plain sight without the inference of having been drinking.

 

[fred1diver]

I don’t want to hide them, just store them, and the Pearson 30 doesn’t have much room

 

[sailcapt340]

I built a small wine rack in the front V berth. Attached to the hanging locker. It gives us addition storage for excess bottles without them rolling or clinking into each other. That’s just annoying. The line tie down simply wraps over each bottle neck and they stay put. The bottom rack can hold 2 champagne bottles.
I keep whiskey and scotch in leather wrapped ships decanters, above the navigation station.
It’s under stocked right now but that’s about to change….this weekend.