by Dennis » Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:15 am
Hello Simon
I use a shallow plastic basket/tray for which I have made a plywood top (to cut down UV degredation of the nylon rode).
The tray was one of a (cheap) set of three which made into some sort of office storage system on castors.
There is a photo in the album "Mary Ann Modifications" with the caption "Foredeck arrangements".
My very first time on the water with Mary Ann, I had a nylon mooring rope coiled in the foredeck well. I was motoring into steep seas (? Kielder Water) with the bowsprit digging into the waves, the rope washed off the deck and the first thing I knew about it was when the motor came to a sudden stop.
I had to swiftly unfurl the yankee and turn about and run into the lee of a headland where I managed to pick up a mooring buoy. It was blowing a F6/7.
Fortunately there was no damage, and I managed to lift the outboard motor into the cockpit and unravel the rope from the prop.
I learnt from that lesson, never to have anything loose on deck which could potentially go overboard and foul the prop.
Cheers
Dennis
CC19 #100 Mary Ann