I should also mention things like a decent shaving mirror, a really good pepper mill, an industrial-power garlic crusher, and a two-man percolator that can be secured upright on the galley stove. An old-fashioned medieval mutch ¬just a knitted tube two feet long and wide enough to slide over the head makes a welcoming neck and head warmer without a hint of the urgency of an oilskin hood (and is a lot more comfort¬able). But the oilskin hood has other uses. Velcro inside it two kitchen timers - one each side - and you can risk sleeping for ten or twenty minutes if the horizon is clear all round and you absolutely must...For heavy weather Piseag boasts a narrow trenchstyle saloon 'table', four inches deep and just able to take two heavy weather bowls - nothing, after all, is harder on the nerves than the prospect of a meal going over the sole. (These pretty, painted bowls, by the way, are a pleasure to eat from. Last time I crossed the Atlantic, with my brother in his Golden Hind Nalana, we carried tin dog dishes for heavy weather; decorative plastic bowls are a defmite improvement!)