Containers

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What is here By material Which is worth dwelling on By format By capacity The families that matter The F style bottle is the marine shape Opaque dominates And 20 amber for anything that cares about light How to shop it References

No glass at all. Nobody wrote that rule and it is the right one.

What is here

880 rows: 354 containers and 526 closures. 50 mL to 3,785 mL with a median of 237.

By material

166 HDPE, 117 PET and 71 PP. No glass and no metal, which for a boat is the correct answer and is not something the archetype specified.

Which is worth dwelling on

Every other property in this library has a glass section. A dropped glass bottle in a cockpit or a bilge is a hazard nobody can sweep up at sea, and its absence here is the shelf being right by accident.

By format

163 jars, 159 bottles, 19 tubs and pails, 12 jugs and 1 tube. Almost an even split between the wax craft and the liquid crafts.

By capacity

101 containers over a pint, 45 over a quart, 13 over a gallon and nothing over five gallons. The top of this shelf is a gallon, which suits a yard and not a fuel dock.

The families that matter

101 PET single wall jars, 43 PE cylinder rounds, 39 HDPE packers, 27 PP single wall jars, 18 PE imperial bullet cosmos, 16 PP round tubs and 12 PE F style bottles.

The F style bottle is the marine shape

Square in plan, flat sided, stows without dead space and does not roll. 12 of them, which is the smallest useful set on this page and the most specifically right.

Opaque dominates

136 white and 83 natural against 54 clear. Natural HDPE lets a level be seen through the wall, which for an oil in a dark locker is genuinely useful.

And 20 amber for anything that cares about light

Which is few products in this group. The archetype does not mark this craft light sensitive and most of these products are not.

How to shop it

Format first, because a paste and an oil and a spray are three different objects. Then material, which for an oil means HDPE and for an acidic cleaner may mean PP. Then the closure and its liner.

References

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 18 October 2026. The marine shelf is 880 rows: 354 containers and 526 closures. 50 mL to 3,785 mL with a median of 237; 101 containers over a pint, 45 over a quart, 13 over a gallon and none over five gallons. 166 HDPE, 117 PET, 71 PP, and no glass or metal at all. 163 jars, 159 bottles, 19 tubs and pails, 12 jugs, 1 tube. 136 white, 83 natural, 54 clear, 39 black, 20 amber. Closures: 368 continuous thread, 39 child resistant, 26 dome lids, 26 spouted, 18 flip top, 11 liners and sealing discs, 10 round tubs, 7 specialty, 7 buttress, 6 phenolic, 2 trigger sprayers.

The archetype behind this shelf is home-spray: 350 to 1,000 mL, narrow mouth, trigger sprayer, PET and HDPE, cold fill, thin, aqueous, sprayed. Its stated reason is "cleaning spray. Trigger sprayer, lockable, chemical resistant." All three leaves sit on it, and the shelf carries two trigger sprayers out of 526 closures.

Written from 40 CFR 110.3 and 33 CFR 155.450, and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. The Vessel General Permit, the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act and in-water hull cleaning rules are named and not summarized; state and local rules on boat washing and marina discharge vary by water body. Whether a specific product may be used in the water is a question about that product and that water.