Organizing gear & spare parts on the boat

[allanbranch]

My son and I are new to diving. While we have a boat of our own, we've been doing weekly dives with a local dive boat charter. We're looking for advice on organizing our gear for on-the-boat.

• What do you bring to hold your gear... A mesh bag? A dry dive bag? Milk crate? A roller case?
• What's in your save a dive kit? (I know there are a few threads about this already, feel free to ignore this question)
• How do you organize your wallet, keys, phone, and dive cert cards? Pelican case? Dry bag?

 

[FF / EMT]

Milk crate with bungees on the side for your fins, save a dive kit in a plastic jug and a pelican case for the stuff that can’t get wet.

 

[Bigbella]

A sizable, collapsible duffel bag with a section for dry storage; some zip-locks -- that's about it. Something that will readily fit under a bench.

Having spent a great deal of my troubled yoot, working boats, most charters would like to avoid the overuse of rigid stumbling blocks such as milk crates, on a wet deck.

I have seen a number of face plants . . .

 

[Marie13]

Large rolling duffle bags, such as you might use for international air travel, take up way too much room on boats.

 

[inquis]

Mesh duffle bag. Small dry bag for phone, keys, and wallet. SADK in a Ziploc bag in the zippered pocket.

 

[Nemrod]

I usually carry my regulator in a regulator bag, a small backpack/dry bag with change of cloths, towel, hat and sun screen and sea sick pills, fist aid kit and all that sort of foolishness and then a mesh gear bag for everything else:

Bonaire Mesh Backpack

In addition to the front pocket which packs smaller items, the Bonaire also features a patented dry compartment built in for a towel, phone or whatever dry-stow items you have on-hand.

www.stahlsac.com

Once everything is geared up and set up the mesh bag gets rolled up and tossed under the seat. I try to hog enough space to put my drybag and now empty reg bag up front somewhere. I am admittedly a space hog since I also have a large camera system in a cooler bag.

James