I recently purchased a boat with a poling platform and quickly found to be able to haul life vests a bunch of my onboard storage was taken up by the vests. I have seen these on T tops before and thought it might work under the poling platform (which is dead space). So far it works great and does just what I wanted. It does have some extra pockets on the back side but they are hard to access since they are on the backside of the boat. Other than that I could not ask for anything better. I only haul 3 extra vests most of the time which leaves a little room to stow my jacket when it warms up.