REBrueckner said:
Hatteras did a few dopey things and that warmer was one. At least give me an on/off switch!! Another was putting the bridge deck doors right next to the roof support on early '72 YF where you can bang them together..and fingers. By my date, 11/72, they moved them apart..voila no more cramped passage!. Also, they could have dreamed up a cockpit drain and catwalk system so rain water would go overboard instead of into the blige. And the most vexing on my boat: unless I am loaded to the top with fuel, rain water collects along the edges of my bridgedeck...about a sponge full on each side, just enough to step in when in socks.
While we're griping, has anyone done anything better than we did about the undersized drains fore and aft of the wing door bulkhead on both side decks? When we bought Chapeaux!, I found water laying on and in the outboard Airseps on each engine...and a year after purchase, replaced the exhaust gooseneck on the outboard side of port eng....rusted through from water getting under the blanket and staying there, traced the source to water building up in the side-deck area during South FL rainshowers (sometimes an inch or more at a time) and running over the pilothouse door sills, under the carpet and down through the engine room access hatches, directly onto and into the engine. Started out by just covering the airseps with plastic trash bags, when not underway. When we had her painted, Stuart yacht suggested we drill a 1-1/2" hole horizontally through the wing door bulkheads, both p & s, close to the deck, which channel the water that can't get down the scupper through and off the aft deck into the cockpit and overboard. Seems to work, but now the aft deck and cockpit get a lot of the side deck water, rather than the water going out the deck scuppers.
Causes that same satanized sock problem described in REBrueckner's post.
Also, had anyone found a fix for redirecting the water that comes out of the bridge drains (positioned p & s in the fwd corners of the bridge) which are located precisely so that the water that runs off the bridge runs over the sundeck and falls right in the middle of the walkway from the pilothouse door through the break in the rail on both sides of the boat. Causes a stream of water that always winds up going down one's neck and splashing into the pilothouse, if the door is left open for ventilation.
And, if I might make a suggestion....stop wearing socks!
Won't fix the problem, but your feet will dry faster. By the way, we have observed the same problem.
