[Public-list] Boom gallows

[George Dinwiddie]

The admiral would never give up her dodger, but I *have* thought about 
installing a bracket for a boom crutch at the aft end of the cockpit.

  - George

Gordon Laco wrote:
> Ah, a dodger...
> 
> No, I do not think that you could fit a forward gallows with a dodger.
> 
> Oh what a slippery slope pandering to the crew's comfort can be!  See the
> real cost of comfort.  If you just been content to suffer in the wet while
> motoring to weather like the sailors of old (yeah, I know they didn't motor,
> but I'm on a roll, pounding the table, spilling the beer) you would have a
> clear field to mount a nice old fashioned gallows.
> 
> ;) Gord 426 Surprise (whose crew is whining in vain for a number of
> concessions to comfort)

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