One of the trickier issues was the 'steerer's step'. This needs a wooden platform inside the rear doors for the steerer to stand on, outside of the tiller radius. Sounds simple, but quite difficult to achieve. Proper traditional boats would have had a big lump of oak, cantilevered off the steelwork. But because there is a hatch in my rear deck, to access the weedhatch, that approach wouldn't work.
The other issue was the sheer difference in height - 21" between the top of the swims and the rear deck, needing a very steep, short staircase,
So I cobbled this together from some bits of CLS and plywood offcuts, to provide a temporary solution and to see if it worked in practice.
Not pretty, but it serves as a prototype until I can make something better, from nice timber and including storage space.
I've been busy putting the Sandyford cooking range back together too. Hopefully it will be working in cooking mode soon, as soon as it's been properly commissioned.
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