Is Your Sailboat SAFE for Heavy Weather?

How can we make this boat a safer boat? This video addresses safety concerns on a Nauticat 38 Motor Sailor. The host specifically mentions the elevated aft deck and sliding doors as potential risks in heavy weather. He shares ideas to modify the boat to improve the safe boat experience. How we want to make our boat safer. How we want to rig our ketch rigged motor sailer. We have a Nauticat 38 motorsailer, and that is a fantastic boat. It is only two things we dont like with this boat. First thing is the elevated aft deck, that we think is unsecure in heavy weather. The other thing is the sliding doors on the side. I dont feel safe working on the aft deck, and I dont like climbing outside the boat in heavy weather. So, what can we do? I think I have found a solution. Follow me, and please give your comments on this down below. I really appreciate your comments on this. Have a look at this. This is our boat, with the sails she has today. I have rigged her so that I can do all sail handling from the aft deck. This works perfect in nice weather, but in heavy weather I don't like working on the aft deck. Then I want t stay inside the pilot house. So now I think: How can I operate the sails from inside the pilot house? Lets start with the mizzen. I can take a reef in the mizzen before I go indoors, and if the sheet is going from the aft deck to a position just outside the sliding door, then I can open the door and adjust this line. That should work, dont you think? Then, I have looked at the foresail. In heavy weather I want to furl the genoa in completely, and roll out a smaller self tacking jib. That will look like this. If this is self tacking, I can have the sheet to a winch just outside the sliding door. Then I can open the door, and operate this sheet as well from inside the pilot house. Then, the mainsail remains. I dont use the mainsail often, and in heavy weather it might be OK to use just the jib and the mizzen. What do you think? But it might be possible to put in two reefs in the main, and then get this sheet as well down to outside if the door. That will be the red line on the drawing. So, in heavy weather I will have the following sails: No genoa, this will be completely furled in. - Then a self tacking jib, this is the yellow sail. - Two reefs in the main, that is the red sail - One reef in the mizzen, that i the purple sail If all the sheets of these sails can be operated from just outside the door, and I also can adjust the area of the jib from that same position, then I would not need to leave the pilot house. What do you think about this solution? Do you think it will work? Do you think it will be worth the money? Have you seen someone rig the sails in this way before? I would love to read your comments, and to get inspiration on how to proceed on this project. Thanks a lot in advance! Yeah, and one more thing. I am also thinking about a wind vane for self steering, but that will be a later project. Did you like this? Please subscribe to get more content about Nauticat and sailing. Chapters: 0:00 How can we make the Nauticat a safer boat? 0:10 Elevated aft deck is dangerous 0:20 Sliding side doors are dangerous 0:37 Sail plan Nauticat ketch 0:56 How can you operate the sails from inside the pilothouse? 2:14 Sails for heavy weather with Nauticat 2:50 Asking for advice from the viewers