We've been living aboard for over three years now and have less than a year before we retire and start some serious cruising. Living here at the marina we've relied on a storage unit for keeping our off season clothes, spare parts, etc. When we depart we'll ditch the work wardrobe but we still need to organize our storage for everything else.
We've organized dry and canned foods using bins kept in the port side settees. This works well but we need to come up with some software to keep inventory. I'd like to find a good spreadsheet that can keep track of all the storage areas on the boat. I could do this myself, make up something on our computer, but if there's something already done that works well why bother to reinvent the wheel?
Has anyone out there found some good software for this?
Gloria TurekI made a copy of our boats layout; whited out & added boxes locker names for master. Made copies. Used one to list contents in pencil. Kept in boat...I made a copy of our boats layout; whited out & added boxes locker names for master. Made copies. Used one to list contents in pencil. Kept in boat file for ref. I found out the excel spreadsheet I started out with was not maintained & also, after a while you know where core items are and you will not need to be too detailed. Best advise is don't make work out of this great adventure.
Cheri + Tom WardGloria - I can appreciate what you say about not making work out of the adventure. I do believe if I was a little more organized it would reduce the...Gloria - I can appreciate what you say about not making work out of the adventure. I do believe if I was a little more organized it would reduce the amount of work. I found a good App for my iPad (ipyoa.com/forum/21-share-what-works-and-does-not-w…) that really serves our needs. We've gone through the storage areas and cleaned them and at the same time listed everything hidden away there. The App (Stock Control) has a search function that makes finding stuff easy. We just have way too much stuff on board to be able to keep it all filed away in my leaky brain. I could remember the core items, no problem. It was the other 10,000 items that got lost.
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We've been living aboard for over three years now and have less than a year before we retire and start some serious cruising. Living here at the marina we've relied on a storage unit for keeping our off season clothes, spare parts, etc. When we depart we'll ditch the work wardrobe but we still need to organize our storage for everything else.
We've organized dry and canned foods using bins kept in the port side settees. This works well but we need to come up with some software to keep inventory. I'd like to find a good spreadsheet that can keep track of all the storage areas on the boat. I could do this myself, make up something on our computer, but if there's something already done that works well why bother to reinvent the wheel?
Has anyone out there found some good software for this?
Tom & Cheri Ward
IP420-35
La Vida Dulce