Stowage of Supplies

Stowage of Supplies

1. Two bags of food, one week’s supply in each bag

2. Watertight, rubberized canvas bag containing navigation books, cameras and log

3. Two more bags of food

4. Blanket used as pillow while sleeping. Several positions were tested for sleeping and the one shown proved most satisfactory.

5. Bags of clothing and photographic film

6. Flotation material

7. Canned–heat stove in gimbals

8. Forty half–gallon plastic bottles of drinking water (not all shown)

9. Saw

10. Other tools

11. Survival fishing kit

12. Packages of spare parts, screws, bolts and batteries

13. Anchor light

14. Compressed–gas horn

15. Extra sails

16. Solar still for converting salt water into fresh water

17. Plank of flotation material (similar plank on starboard side)

18. Victory Girl emergency SOS transmitter

19. Survival kit

20. Five–gallon plastic container of water

21. Bag of food with another underneath

22. Radio receiver

23. Sextant

24. Medical kit in airtight case

25. Assortment of lumber for making repairs

26. Two more bags of food

27. Two more flotation planks