We all have the access hole behind the port side (dinette) settee, it is a "finished" area, with clean finished sides and bottom. It allows access to the port, aft lower chainplate. Inside this area, just aft of its opening, is a partial vertical wall, that acts as the aft bulkhead of this storage area / chainplate access. I cut out the new hole to match the dimensions of the factory cut-out, and placed it the same distance from the end of the settee as the factory cut-out, thereby giving symmetry to the dinette seatback area. As far as what I've got in there now, WOW! there's a lot of space:
- Spare Icom M802 SSB Radio / Control Head + Cable / Speaker / Microphone / Power Cord
- Spare Icom M602 VHF Radio / Microphone / Power cord
- Spare Raymarine equipment/parts (ST 80 Masterview, depth transducer and thru-hull, GPS 120, Heading Sensor, Rudder position sensor, Sea Talk cables, 5-wire cables, etc. etc.)
- Spare Bilge pump (my original)
- 50A 125v/250v Shore Power "Y" Cable
- Misc Spare parts (Bimini / Dodger frame parts, misc plumbing parts, etc.)
- 36 Double Rolls of Quilted Northern Ultra bathroom tissue, (YES 3 DOZEN rolls of TP)
- 18 Big Rolls of Bounty paper towels
AND there's room for more!Everyone has their own use for storage spaces, I'm just including my inventory of the new storage area so that you can get an idea of how much room there is back there.
