When Stray Cat was in the yard repairing the starboard nose from when we smashed it and flooded the stbd hull, we had the yard fashion epoxy coated plywood steps (like a little wall shelf) and bond two or three of them to opposite sides of the inside of the bow storage lockers, enabling non athletes to enter and exit these spaces easilly.
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Locker steps
Locker steps
Candy Chapman and Gary Bell in Stray Cat, MV34 hull 12