Regarding the HISWA Yacht Valley Tour

Yes the read was very good, I really took my time I read it to digest the information before me. The array of projects in-build is great and I for one cannot wait until many of them are cruising around. Thanks for taking the time and sharing with the wider YF community you experiences at the tour, it is exceedingly valuable.

Thanks guys!

Sorry on the delayed response. As soon as I finished taking the tour live, I took a couple of days off and played dead. It's the first break I've had in a while. I put together about 10 pages of editorial for the HISWA feature, but it could have been 50 pages. So many details. So little time!

There were a few eye-openers on construction methods, while others had me raising an eyebrow. For example, one builder (name withheld) is choosing to paint the wiring harnesses and zip-ties inside their engine rooms. When I questioned this, I was told it makes the the engine room look more sanitary, to which I asked... 'what if you have to pull a wire?" Not only does it make tracing wires more difficult without color coding, but once you break the paint, it will continue to flake. And I also wonder how well paint adheres to zip-ties?

Reminds me of a few of the Navy boats I served on. Same thing there. Made for a lot of fun tracing systems out

Thanks for the tour. Many of us will never get to do it, so we rely on those that do. It was fascinating to see and read.

At least in the past, this was the same on all European built boats, except for Codecasa. They understood that people working in the engine room didn´t like to carry white paint in one hand all the time...

Scot, you are finally a senior member, getting old like the rest of us! Carl change his status!

Very nice write-up of the Dutch constructors, Carl, thanks.

The highest compliment and descriptor to engineering design is the word... 'elegant', and that was certainly evident in Neco's "Valquest" and, as you mentioned, plenty of other places we/you just didn't see.

This in contrast to your post #3. Maybe management left that decision to Henrik the sweeper boy?
White plastic overhead sections held in place with a handful of DZUS fasteners would have hidden those ugly wire runs...and allowed the electrical guy to mark the wiring with a Sharpie for future tracing.

Didn't think I had learned that much yet. Working on it though.