... goodness me .. I'm not designing a portocabin on top of a mank auld trawler .. I'm designing a super fast slick sailing flying machine oceanworthy tey capable of planing at 30 knots under sail or engine .. and best of all it will be 26 ft long .. not a cubit more or a cubit less .. and I've got no intention of mounting Arafat!
some would argue that the most successful 26 footer was the Centaur, halfman halfbeast, I want to go the whole hog, so to speak, and make it totally animal!
Don't forget the Duckboards in the cockpit, Pelican hooks on the boarding gate and Parrots Beak catches on the doors. If you keep your Eagle Eye open you can git them from the Robin Bustard down the swindlery if you can Bear to Ferret around.