Hatching a solution

This is true even for fairly large boats. My 11.5m powercat has a fair number of lockers in the cabin area, but the rear cockpit has a dearth of storage space. Apart from a shelf running under each gunwale, and one small locker under the sink on the port side, the only wet-storage area is the cockpit floor itself!

Of course, the twin inboard diesels and gearboxes take up most of the interior hull space, and together with the 350-litre fuel tanks either side, there is precious little underfloor space that’s not already in use.

But because my boat is a production model, I know from other boats with the same hull that there is still a fair bit