Hi Tore,
I have been looking at this picture and I have just realized from your version of it that what I thought was the snorkle head is actually the hydraulic cylinder; the snorkle is actually either raised or missing in this picture:
I have drawn a dotted outline where the snorkle would lie when lowered.
My question is: The lateral braces that I have drawn arrows to - I assumed that these were the deck support struts/braces.
But there is no cutout for the snorkle!
So instead, are these braces
below deck, running from the top of the port saddle tank to the top of the starboard saddle tank?
Are these braces what the snorkle lies on when lowered?
It is hard to see the perspective here.
If I am seeing correctly, the casing
is missing above the saddle tanks. It appears to be cut off just behind the life raft cannisters.
So I
think the braces we see from the life raft canisters forward are for the wooden deck, but the braces we see aft of there are below-deck.
But maybe this is just an illusion and I can't see the casing over the saddle tanks because it is being viewed edge-on.
But if the braces are for the deck, how does the snorkle get through them to lie down?
The more I look at it (follow the starboard side of the deck line) it looks like the casing over the tanks is in fact there.
So if all those horizontal braces are at deck-height, how does the snorkle lie down?
Thanks,
Steve