Camco 55014 PowerGrip Shore Power Cord Duffle Bag

If you run shore power, you already know the drill. The cord ends up coiled in a wet heap in the lazarette, the 30-to-50-amp adapter is somewhere in the bottom of a locker, and the pigtail you actually need is the one you can't find. Camco built the PowerGrip Duffle Bag to end that. It's a dedicated soft bag that keeps your extension cord and every adapter in one place, ready to grab on your way to the pedestal.

The layout is simple and it works. There's a large main pocket sized to hold a coiled shore power cord, and a separate bottom compartment with its own padded areas to store and protect your adapters. Keeping the adapters padded and away from the cord matters more than it sounds. Those brass pins and molded housings get chewed up when they rattle around loose against a heavy cord, and a damaged adapter at the dock is a bad night. Here they each get a cushioned slot of their own.

Carrying it is easy. You get two handles for a quick grab off the dock box or out of the cockpit, plus a removable shoulder strap for when your hands are full of dock lines and a coffee. Sling it over your shoulder, walk the finger pier, drop it at the pedestal, done. The strap comes off when you'd rather just stuff the bag in a locker without it snagging on everything.

A word on fit, because it's the first thing folks ask. The main pocket swallows a 25-foot or 30-foot 30-amp cord with room to spare, and it'll take a 50-foot cord if you don't overstuff it. The trick, and every experienced hand will tell you the same, is to leave a little breathing room. Cram a soaking-wet cord in and force the zipper and you're asking for trouble. Coil it neat, leave about ten percent empty, and the zipper closes clean for years.

Who's this for? Anybody tired of a tangled, corroded mess of power gear. It's ideal on express cruisers, trawlers, and any boat with a real dock box or cockpit locker to stow it in. On a small runabout under 22 feet it can feel bulky, so it earns its keep more on bigger boats that actually carry a full cord and a handful of adapters. Store it somewhere with a little airflow rather than sealed in a damp lazarette, and your adapters will thank you by not corroding between trips.

Here's a real-world setup that works for most dock situations. Keep a 25 or 30-foot PowerGrip cord coiled in the main pocket, then park your common adapters in the padded bottom. A 30-to-50-amp, a 50-to-30-amp, and whatever pigtail your home marina and your travel stops call for. Now the whole shore power kit travels as one unit. Pull into a guest slip with a different pedestal and you've got the adapter on hand instead of discovering you left it at the home dock. That's the entire point of keeping it together in one bag.

The construction is soft-sided duffle style, so it packs down and stows flat when it's empty. That's handy on a boat where every locker is already spoken for. And because it's a bag and not a hard case, it flexes to fit whatever cord length you're running rather than forcing you into one fixed size.

One thing to be clear about. This is the bag only. The extension cord and adapters aren't included, so you're buying organization, not the cord itself. If you've already got a PowerGrip cord and a pile of adapters living loose in a locker, this is the piece that finally corrals them. Two handles, a removable strap, a padded home for the fragile bits, and a big main pocket for the cord. Simple gear that does exactly one job and does it well.