A convenient container for small canisters
Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011
If you have an anchor locker with a drain, here’s an easy way to store those 1-pound propane tanks used for barbecue grills.
Buy a length of 4-inch PVC pipe at your local hardware or home-improvement store and cut it to fit vertically inside your anchor locker. (Note: the locker must have a working drain and be sealed from the rest of the boat.) The 4-inch diameter is large enough that you can reach into the pipe to retrieve a canister.
On our C&C 30, we can store six 1-pound tanks in two PVC holders and still have plenty of room for more than 500 feet of anchor rode.
Michael Facius is Good Old Boat’s publisher and advertising manager. He and his wife, Patty, sail their 1979 C&C 30, Callisto out of Bayfield, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior.
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