Bruce wittered: snipped ;-)) > 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? Oh dear, if only you'd thought to ask the expert(s) ;-))) An Edgson (what a superb builder, look on and drool) has a hinged hatch whose leading edge is trapped under the stern doors and the hinges set so far back to the cant that you can't, having unscrewed the screws, free the hinges/hatch because you won't get the hatch raised (so it's totally secure). Under the lifting hatch is access to a weed hatch upstand (quite a way down, but still with the require 10 inches or so for safety certification) and a plate tightened down to the top surface of the uxter plate by the conventional bar and screw arrangement. >From the two Hudsons that I've been closely involved with, LT and Uncle Mort, >you do indeed have to remove a screwed down hatch and reach down the whole >length of a tube to get to the prop. What SMH does on later 'craft' is >unfamiliar to me. Oh ye of little faith! ;-))) Roger
