{"id":69,"date":"2002-08-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-02T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-04-17T09:09:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T14:09:44","slug":"liquids-stored-on-deck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/liquids-stored-on-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquids Stored on Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mosimage\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"storing jerry jugs on deck\" src=\"\/images\/stories\/techtalk\/jerryjug.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"storing jerry jugs on deck\" hspace=\"6\" width=\"180\" height=\"187\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the cruising grounds close to home you see a lot of boats carrying plastic jugs on deck filled with diesel or fresh water. You can get away with this if conditions remain moderate. But it does not take much of a wave to rip the containers (or the hardware to which they are attached) free and send them down the deck and\/or overboard. In addition, all that weight stored so high above the vertical center of gravity reduces stability and in a knockdown, can make it more difficult for the boat to get back onto an even heel.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, we prefer to keep the decks cleared.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you do carry jugs on deck, take a look at this photo for a neat way to do it. Those 2 x 6 &#8221; (50 x 150mm) boards, to which the jugs are tied, will double as fender board when tied up alongside pilings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the cruising grounds close to home you see a lot of boats carrying plastic jugs on deck filled with <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/liquids-stored-on-deck\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}