Wednesday 2 September 2009

fitting it all in

While anchored for a couple of nights over the weekend, I spent a bit of time contemplating how everything could be organised on the transom as we slowly prep Morgana for long distance cruising....

I don't think its realistic to have a radar arch that extends far enough back to allow a tender (rib or otherwise) to hang from it, and still fit a windvanve on the transom... the tender would need to be so far back that the radar arch would need to be massive in order to handle the leverage....

So... I need to consider two things....

1] Could a windvane be easily made to be removable?... and would this make sense, eg using it for only the longer passages where it is worth fitting it...

2] How easily could we carry a tender on the decks.... or would we need to carry on with an inflatable and drop the plans for a rib?

I did even contemplate how we might put a hole through the bathing platform for a windvane to go through (and hence bring it forward), but this would put the windvane rudder a bit too close to the main rudder for comfort.... as well as make fitting and removing the windvane rudder a real PITA.....

Not sure really how to proceed on this one.... I have plenty of time to think it through, but need to have worked it out in my head before I start spending any money on things like the radar arch....

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