Copied your dynemaa safety line idea Asmat.

Wish I had come up with that myself. I sail Siskin without the stansions as my big feet wouldn't fit and I disliked their leak-potential.

These lines provides so much more safety than holding on to the grabrails on the cabin top AND they may provide a line to climb back on board after an unvoluntary plunge.

Thanx again!

Antoine, the gallows aboard Emmelène serve a useful purpose apart from securing the sail bundle. The photos show a 6mm Dyneema hand line that lets me move confidently forward and holds my harness tether. It is attached through the stainless loops on the gallows and doubles back on the opposite side via a thimble on a bridle attached to the pulpit. Downhauls cleated on the aft cabin bulkhead supply tension. Releasing these lets the gallows be folded down. I think this arrangement makes more sense than the 45cm guardwire stanchions originally fitted. They don't even reach my knees and serve no purpose other than for hanging fenders, causing deck leaks and tripping people overboard.

You're right. A cockpit shelter will certainly improve your quality of life at anchor. I suppose I might lash something up with bamboo poles, but these will have to be carried as deck cargo. I haven't thought of fitting a spray hood, but if it doesn't stop bloody raining I may build a watchkeeper's kennel like the one in the photo, which I carried on my Arctic voyage a few years back.