Pete Verdon d wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote:

We've never felt the need for wind scoops. If we are at anchor, the
boat usually points into the wind and the hatch popped up acts as a
wind scoop.

Fair enough. Most boats I've been on have the hinge at the front, so
that wouldn't work. I think it's required by chartering regulations
somewhere, which is why they're built like that.

I doubt that as our boats were made for charter and almost all the
hatches are configured to open forward. I think the saloon hatches
open from the back, but we rarely open them anyway.

Of course it may be that since they are old, they still considered
that if people didn't close the hatches before they got underway, they
deserved wet bedding rather than try to legislate it out for them.

I have seen a suggestion that, if anchored in calm weather somewhere
hot, you could shift the anchor line to the stern so that the companion
way acts as a big wind scoop right into the whole cabin. Struck me as
quite a good idea, as long as the conditions were right.

Pete

grandma Rosalie