Re: The GOBLIN


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on February 24, 2007 at 00:25:25 from 195.93.21.42 user ACB.

In Reply to: The GOBLIN posted by Dan Lind on February 23, 2007 at 04:21:33:

None of the above; times have changed.

It is an easier to build a plastic boat with a self draining cockpit, and easier to build a wooden boat without one.

The boat that I have had for the past 22 years is wooden, and has such a cockpit, but that is because she was specifically designed to cross the Atlantic, back in the 1930's and is therefore unusual.

I've crossed the North Sea a couple of times in a boat, much smaller than GOBLIN, that did not have one, and which did have the stern tube greaser under the cockpit floor, and I've sailed from Lymington to Spitzbergen and back in a boat, bigger than GOBLIN, which did not have one either.

The sea is not much inclined to rush into the cockpit, I find.

The way to keep the rain out, on the mooring, is to fit a canvas cockpit cover. Indeed, it is bad practice to leave a boat with a self draining cockpit on a mooring without a cockpit cover and with the drains open, because the boat is relying on the integrity of the drain hoses to stay afloat!


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