Over on the BSA blog, Mr Millin and I are having a debate, so far good natured (wonders will never...), about the configuration of S M Hudson's weed hatches.
He says: > Sorry to contradict you old chap but a Hudson has a hatch in the > stern deck also. The problem with a SMH is that you have to unbolt > the hatch (about 6 bolts) to access the trunking and then reach down > to the uxter plate and beyond. Yours has the same length trunking, I > believe, but a liftable hatch. I reckon that you're going to have to > develop 'ape' arms.........I couldn't possibly comment. I reckon: > That's not my memory of how it was on Lord Toulouse with that nice > Mr Dyke. Do you recall our fun and games with his Beta Tug at the > SBC Gig before last? > > I was the one grovelling under his stern deck, and there weren't no > trunking, baas. > > Trunking or not, still doesn't affect how far it is to reach from > the deck to the prop. Most shells are the same, with a deck level > hatch, aren't they? Certainly all the ones I've had to deal with in > hiring and O/S days were like that. > > Of course, for people of normal growth, it isn't a problem... Tim Tyler's, of course, have trunking but the stern deck hatch is free to lift. I thought only genuine trad working boats and accurate copies like Roger Fuller's and Graham Edgson's didn't have such namby pamby facilities as an easy way to get at the prop... Any other contributions from SMH owners here? All the best Bruce Follow the building of Sanity Again at http://sanityagain.blogspot.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/canals-list/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
