Storage Solutions For Life Aboard
Storage Solutions For Life Aboard
Practical ways to store everything you need aboard—no matter your boat’s size
Make the Most of Every Inch—Smart Storage for Life Aboard
Storage on a boat comes with unique challenges: limited space, constant movement, heat, humidty, and safety considerations. But with the right strategies, you can turn every inch of your boat into a functional, organized, and livable space.
Storage Solutions for Life Aboard is your guide to solving these challenges. Packed with practical advice, real-world examples, and actionable tips, this course empowers you to tackle your boat’s storage needs with confidence, so you can spend less time hunting for things and more time enjoying life on the water.
✔ Select the best storage containers for your unique needs
✔ Organize tools, maintenance supplies, and spare parts so they’re safe and easy to access
✔ Safely store galley supplies and food to avoid spoilage or spills
✔ Maximize every inch of space so you have everything you need
✔ Protect sensitive items like electronics and medications from damage
✔ Secure everything before setting out to sea, ensuring safety in rough conditions
This course includes 14 modules filled with detailed instructions, helpful tips, and over 90 real-world photos:
- Choosing Storage Containers: Learn which containers work best for a variety of items aboard.
- General Storage Organization: Practical principles to help you make the most of limited space.
- Tools, Parts & Maintenance Supplies: Discover effective ways to organize and access these critical items.
- Bottles & Glassware: Keep fragile items safe from breakage.
- Food & Galley Supplies: Store food to prevent spoilage, spills, or pests and make the most of your galley space.
- Medicines & Medical Supplies: Protect both emergency and everyday medications from heat and humidity.
- Personal Papers & Photos: Keep important documents secure and learn smart ways to store digital and physical memories.
- Books & Electronics: Avoid damage and ensure quick access to these items.
- Clothing & Shoes: Efficiently manage seasonal changes and limited wardrobe space.
- Bedding & Towels: Tidy solutions for bulky linens.
- Hobbies: Fit the activities you love into your space.
- Critical Safety Tips: Practical advice for securing your gear in rough seas.
- Editable Pre-Departure Checklist: Ensure everything is safely stowed before setting sail.
- Two DIY Project Guides: Step-by-step instructions for practical storage upgrades.
This course focuses entirely on the specific storage challenges of living aboard a boat, giving you ideas and solutions tested by real cruisers.
✔ Over 90 photos demonstrate effective storage setups
✔ Two hands-on DIY project guides for practical upgrades
✔ Links to recommended products to take the guesswork out of shopping
✔ Editable checklist to simplify pre-departure stowing
Unlike general organization advice, Storage Solutions for Life Aboard helps you solve real-world problems with solutions tailored to life on the water.
Get started immediately—your login details will appear on the purchase confirmation screen and be sent to your email for easy access later.
✔ Work through the course at your own pace, whenever it’s convenient for you
✔ Refer back to topics anytime you need a refresher
✔ Enjoy lifetime access to updates at no extra cost
This online course is entirely text- and photo-based, making it accessible even in areas with limited internet connectivity. No videos or high-speed internet are required.
Carolyn Shearlock brings 17 years of full-time liveaboard experience to this course, split between a Tayana 37 monohull and a Gemini 105 catamaran. These two very different boats gave her a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities that come with boat storage.
During her 14,000+ miles of cruising in the Sea of Cortez, Pacific Mexico, Central America, Florida, and the Bahamas, Carolyn developed the practical techniques shared in this course. Her approachable teaching style has helped thousands of cruisers create more livable, functional spaces aboard their boats.
At The Boat Galley, we have one mission: to help you cruise with confidence.
As liveaboard cruisers, we understand the challenges and questions that come with boat life. That’s why we create practical products and courses designed to tackle the same issues we’ve faced ourselves—making your life on the water easier, safer, and more enjoyable.
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"Love this course! So much practical information as well as tips that may have never crossed my mind. I immediately started putting many of these ideas to use and will refer back to course when I can’t figure out where to put something!"
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Meet The Boat Galley Team
At The Boat Galley, we’re all cruisers. We know the joys—and the challenges—of boat life. The steep learning curve, costly mistakes, and hours spent searching for answers can be overwhelming. We’ve been there. That’s why we’ve created practical tools, trusted resources, and real-world guides to help you skip the frustrations and focus on enjoying your cruising life.
- Founder of The Boat Galley
- 17 years liveaboard cruiser
- US, Mexico, Bahamas, Central America, Virgin Islands, Turkey
- Cruisers University instructor
- Cruising Guide creator
- 6 years living aboard and cruising
- US East Coast from Florida Keys to Maine and Bahamas
- Ex-Air Force; singlehander
- Provisioning guru; podcaster
- On & off living aboard since 1992
- Atlantic crossing; US, Caribbean, and Bahamas
- Years of cruising with kids
- VHF pro and frugal cruiser
- Cruiser and delivery captain
- US East Coast, Bahamas, Haiti, and Caribbean
- Cruisers University instructor
- Creator of Cruising With Your Dog
- 7 years cruising with Honey
- US East Coast and ICW
- Part of the Go Pet Friendly team
- 15+ years writing about dogs
- Graphics designer
- 8 years living aboard
- US East Coast to SE Caribbean
- Design and layout for all printed products
- Social media coordinator
- Pacific Ocean: Seattle, WA to New Zealand, incl. French Polynesia
- Complete newbie to sailing prior to her 11,000 nm voyage
- Boatshow booth "mom"
- Sabbatical and part-year cruiser
- US, Bahamas, Caribbean
- Family cruising New England to southern Caribbean
Curious about our story and what drives us? Learn more about us here.
Carolyn and her associates have taken a large amount of information and filtered down to the "need to knows". The course is worth taking, even for experience cruisers. Learn something or refresh something. Great job.
A great course that is very informational and thought provoking on organizing a boat.
I loved this course as a future cruiser (I have not purchased my boat yet) this is great information to help me understand the thought and methodology.
Great tips, lots of options, lots of examples. Super helpful!
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