Issue 18: May/June 2001
Books are difficult objects to stow in an easily accessible way aboard a boat. Low fiddles trip them up at sea, and high fiddles fight their removal. This system employs a very low, fixed fiddle and an easily removed rope or cord fiddle.
The cord is fixed at one end of the bookshelf and passes through a hole on the other side. In port it may be kept loose. At sea it is cleated tight to prevent the books from falling out.
Alan has been cruising for 40 years, primarily south of the equator. He and his wife, Patricia, have built or restored all eight of the boats they have owned. The most recent of these project boats is a 50-foot fiberglass skipjack.
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