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Xs Scuba roller mesh duffle holds everything, then roll it up under your seat while on boat. Rolls up and goes in bottom of travel roller bag for plane trips. Rolls up to be about 18" x 8" if that is too big for the dive boat get a bigger boat than a Jon boat. Lol
 
I try very hard to avoid doing this. It leads to being hot and sweaty, makes moving kit about harder and requires somewhere to do the changing. If you have a flood then your dry clothes need to be available too.

Communal space is at a premium on dive boats. Here the greatest faux pas is to bring a crate with kit in it. When empty it doesn't compress down and takes up space. On some boats that is ok, on others not. Ideally bags should be able to be squashed down or at least flatten to take up little space forward or below. Having an awkward bag which is hard to stow and gets left where people might trip over it is a bad idea.

I always bring a set of dry clothes in a dry bag. We usually put on our drysuits at the car because trying to put them on, on a small, moving, and wet boat is not super fun. I don't get too hot with the bottom on and the suspenders. We move our kits onto the boat and then put on drysuit last, guess it depends on boat size and how close you are to your vehicle and whether it's raining out :)
 
Set up my kit in the car and bring it down to the boat. Fins, mask, weight belt, and dsmbs in a mesh bag which goes under my seat. If it's a short motor out, I change into my drysuit before getting on the boat. If it's a long motor out, my drysuit bag goes into the cabin and I change when we're about halfway to the dive site.
 
Getting undies and dry suit at least half on before getting on the boat seems like a good idea. Dive will be in a couple of weeks, so it would be colder. I think the boat trip will be fairly short.

Someone told me yesterday that the marina has wagons to help you schlep your gear. Will have to confirm that.

Sounds like one of the rolling mesh bags is going to be my best bet.

Thanks!
 
Getting undies and dry suit at least half on before getting on the boat seems like a good idea. Dive will be in a couple of weeks, so it would be colder. I think the boat trip will be fairly short.

Someone told me yesterday that the marina has wagons to help you schlep your gear. Will have to confirm that.

Sounds like one of the rolling mesh bags is going to be my best bet.

Thanks!
There are carts at the marina. You'll be glad as the boat is at the far end and it's a hike with gear. As to suiting up at the dock, it depends on what wreck you're diving. The MSB is a few minutes away, the Mac is an hour. I always have my rig ready before so I can just strap it in.
 
There are carts at the marina. You'll be glad as the boat is at the far end and it's a hike with gear. As to suiting up at the dock, it depends on what wreck you're diving. The MSB is a few minutes away, the Mac is an hour. I always have my rig ready before so I can just strap it in.

Thanks for confirmation! I do have my own wagon, so I could have hauled it out if needed, but that would have meant another trip back to the car so no one took off with it! How far from the parking lot to the boat, minute wise?
 
Thanks for confirmation! I do have my own wagon, so I could have hauled it out if needed, but that would have meant another trip back to the car so no one took off with it! How far from the parking lot to the boat, minute wise?
Not too far, maybe 5 minutes. It's a long 5 minutes when you are carrying heavy gear.
 
Rolling bags are for airline travel, they are too big for on boat use for a day charter and many divers hate it when a diver comes aboard with them and takes up all the space with a huge roller bag. I carry a mesh back pack with me and use that for the boat plus a small mesh day pack with a dry bag inside for a dry change of cloths and a towel etc. Usually another small gym bag with my regulator and computer etc. Everything else goes in the mesh diver back pack.
The roller bag I use on boat dives is a mesh bag with wheels. It isn't a dive bag that you would check with the airlines when traveling...because it's mesh. I have a rolling travel dive bag which is great when checking it with the airlines. The cool thing I do is put my mesh bag inside the travel rolling bag and pack my gear in the mesh bag (I don't check my reg, mask, or computers...they go in the carry-on). When I get to my destination I just pull my mesh bag out and it's just about ready to go for a dive (after I've included a few more items). After I gear up, the mesh bag is flexible and gets shoved under the bench.
 
Double Action Dive Charters out of Hammond.
 

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