No low quality mild steel
gear on this
Boat, not even for a seacock opener.
I have decided to buy a good quality telescopic aluminium boathook. She packs down to 92cm and has been officially named Shortaas and will get her own clip position. I am also going to put a bit of brightly coloured paint or tape on the lever so that I can see it easily. The next step, once all the
panels are in is to have a competition to see how fast each person can get to that seacock and close/open it.
The seacocks all get opened and closed every couple of weeks.
Designing and fitting out a
boat is like a huge 3d jigsaw. Working stuff out in drawings is one thing, but fitting it all in a boatshaped space, juxtaposing
safety, practicality, comfort; and staying sane is quite another. It's no wonder the British
navy had
rum and
beer rations.