Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family.<\/p>\n
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Thanks to all readers who took the time to answer last week’s Survey on carrying a vacuum bagger on your boats. We had a good response and 38% of those who replied do carry a vacuum bagger. Of those who do not, 16% say they are considering carrying one aboard in the future. Of those who do, this is how they use their vacuum bagger:\u00a0 84% to preserve food; 66% to keep items dry, like matches; and, 31% for storing clothing not used when cruising or when heading home for a while.<\/p>\n
Here are some comments from readers:<\/p>\n
“Motor parts and infrequently used tools and electronics.”<\/p>\n
“Spare parts and rarely used specialty tools.”<\/p>\n
“We had one for a few years when just starting out. 20% or more leaked after a few months and we just found it not really necessary.”<\/p>\n
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Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your thoughts and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Do you have an outdoor\/cockpit grill on your boat? Thanks to all readers who took the time to answer last week’s Survey on carrying a vacuum bagger on your boats. We had a good response and 38% of those who replied do carry a vacuum bagger. Of those who do not, 16% say they are considering carrying one aboard in the future. Of those who do, this is how they use their vacuum bagger:\u00a0 84% to preserve food; 66% to keep items dry, like matches; and, 31% for storing clothing not used when cruising or when heading home for a while. Here are some comments from readers: “Motor parts and infrequently used tools and electronics.” “Spare parts and rarely used specialty tools.” “We had one for a few years when just starting out. 20% or more leaked after a few months and we just found it not really necessary.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40288,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40281\/revisions\/40288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}