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From: Roy (no email)
Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 20:51:20 EDT
I've had books in bookshelves for the past four years cruising in the Caribbean .. and they've done very well.
My suggestion is to beware of putting them in out of the way storage areas in the hull which you assume will never have a water problem .. since that's exactly the area where the shower sump pump for the forward berth will fail .. and there might be two feet of water sloshing around on an otherwise nice Sunday afternoon .. and all of your wonderful preparations for the safety of your books, well, needs to be pumped overboard.
Roy
passagemaker/ Steel Magnolia
Rick Bradshaw <> wrote:
Evert,
I was always taught that having cardboard boxes of any kind onboard
was an invitation to cockroach critters. I think that putting them in
individual plastic bags with a couple those moisture containers would
be a good idea as would be the vacuum sealer. But cardboard boxes?
I'd rethink that.
Good luck.
Rick
>...
> >"My concern is how best to pack a dozen boxes of books that will be
>>stored in the hull of a tall ship departing next month for a round the
>>world voyage. They will be distributed along the way, and will
>>obviously be subject to temp fluctuations. I plan to put each in a poly
>>bag leaving the ends open and then into heavy cardboard liquor boxes.
>>Would this be sufficient protection ? Would it be a good idea to put
> >something in the bottom of each carton like dry rice?? "
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