Quote Originally Posted by davidwigler View Post
Thanks to this thread my son and I discussed a fire plan and did a fire drill. The aft hatches hadn’t been opened in so long they were stuck.
Ryan and I were spending the night on the 41 several years ago when I awoke from a dream that the boat was on fire, and there was no way out. I was assuring him things would be okay when I knew we were doomed.

It was so real and scared me so badly, I woke him up at 2AM and told him I had forgotten to do something at home. With that, we left the boat. The 41DC is a death trap from a master stateroom escape standpoint, and mine is even worse with a sofa atop the escape hatch which is accessed by crawling over the chest of drawers, up and out through the smallish lazarette and through that less than large hatch.