"mmc" wrote in
ng.com:

We met a couple from the RAF Yacht Club that had a Amel. What a
beautiful boat.



The outside is nearly as pretty as the bilge! Under the Sharki 41's galley
is the main bilge pump. It's so far down to that pump, my arm only reaches
about half way to it!

I like the feeling of also have 3 watertight bulkheads between me and
sinking, not zero. The chain locker aft bulkhead is the first. The main
salon's forward bulkhead is second. The aft bulkhead of the aft cabin is
third. All sink/shower drains go into the bilge to be pumped overboard
ABOVE the waterline. No plastic fittings blowing off and flooding her or
water spraying up into a sink in a blow. The forward head shower and sink
drain into a basin under an open teak deck water just runs through.
There's a steel pipe with ball valve to secure in a bow breach back to the
main cabin watertight bulkhead to prevent flooding the main bilge. It's
all very well thought out, first class.

The whole center cockpit deck is the engineroom cover that hinges up.