I recently acquired a Flex Fold Crab Trap. and my kids love it! I mean, they love playing with it in the living room. The cats don’t love it so much, but for those who want to know, you can trap a Siamese cat in a Flex Fold Crab Trap.
I took the Flex Fold to my boat, a C-Dory 22 Cruiser. This is a small boat with a flat bottom, so it doesn’t have a lot of stowage space. That’s one reason I’m attracted to collapsing crab traps such as the Flex Fold and the Stow-B-Low. I was able to find several spots on the boat where I could stow the Flex Fold completely out of the way. I omitted spaces already dedicated to items I want to keep clean and dry, such as food and clothing. Here are the spots that are left:
This is a good spot to stow it when it’s wet and smelly, and I don’t want it inside the cabin. It’s out of the way, it can drip into the cockpit, and once it’s dry I can bring it inside to its regular spot.
With its flat bottom, the C-Dory has no bilge stowage in the conventional sense. These foot lockers are the closest thing we’ve got. Wouldn’t want to stow it wet here, because the water would run out of the locker into the main cabin floor.
And here are two spots I could use beneath the aft dinette seat. The big object monopolizing this compartment is the water tank. It’s important not to stow anything here that could damage the tank. The boat came from the factory with a sheet of plywood mounted as a false bottom, protecting the tank, but I removed that to increase storage space. Sure, this didn’t created a lot of new space, but I can store an entire crab trap in either one of these nooks! Or are they crannies?
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You get crabs; I cook ‘em. Yum Yum………
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