Stowage

The boarding ladder has a new home which is convenient, out of the way, and will hopefully ensure it never gets demolished by a stray sheet again.

I fitted a couple of spare mounting pads into the top of the starboard side cockpit coaming, just next to the lifeline entrance gate. I then machined up some bolts so that they became screw-in pins that go into the pads. Finally, I drilled holes to match the pins into the underside of the ladder frame.

Now you can just slot the ladder onto the pins and attach a hook at the bottom to secure it all. All sorted!

Pins screwed into the mounting pads.

Ladder hooked into the pins.

All sorted!