Surprising Uses For The 18 Compartment Hardware Box
Some of the best times I have had with my father we sailing with him on his boat in the San Francisco Bay. My dad discovered his love for sailing when I was about twelve years old, and it started a lifelong love of it for me as well. He started with a sixteen-foot Hobie Cat, a two hulled yellow craft with orange and brown sails (why those colors were so popular in the 1970’s is beyond me). We started sailing on reservoirs, then took to the bay when he upgraded to an eighteen footer. Eventually, he completed his collection of sail boats with a thirty foot single hulled craft, also a Hobie. And boy, was she yar!
Because my father is old and unable to sail anymore, I often day dream about those days. Whenever I need to go to a “happy place” in my mind, I think about the smell and feeling of the salty air over the waters of the bay. The sound of the boat slicing through the choppy surface. The feeling of sheets in my hand as I’d help my father tacking the boat. One of my favorite things when sailing around the bay was when we’d pass underneath the Bay Bridge. The traffic above was a loud, audible humming until the few seconds when you pass underneath; it would go totally silent. A phenomenon I never understood, but always appreciated for its mystery.
18 compartment hardware box
The point of my romantic reminiscence here actually has little to do with the lure of the sea, and more to do with a piece of plastic. By that I mean my father’s tackle box. This 18-compartment hardware box is commonly seen around the household for organizing small bits and pieces such as beads, earrings or nuts and bolts. My father used several of these to neatly store his boat tackle. So, as I come across them now in my life (I own a few for the aforementioned items and just about everyone I know does as well) they always take me back to those windy, sunny days getting the boat ready for her day’s voyage.
