BOAT REPORT HAINES 400


Exterior Safe decks and


COCKPIT


protected cockpit The steps from the side decks down to the sculpted-in, uncluttered bathing platform are a decent size and well angled, plus the guardrails extend down to form a handrail. Set between you’ll find several fender holders, which relieve the dinette seat lockers of having to stow them. Synthetic teak is fitted as standard to the steps and cockpit-style aft deck but the test boat came spec’d with real teak – an option that also includes the side decks. A flat foredeck area is fashioned in ahead of


the gently sloping coachroof. A manual windlass is fitted as standard, which will suit river and inland users. Any one looking for a seaboat should bump this up to an electric one from the options list. Back in the aft deck ‘cockpit’ the deep, U-shaped seating will accommodate six around the solid wooden table. In addition the helm seats are capable of swivelling round to join in. Solid GRP gates complete the feeling of being very much ‘inside’ the boat. Nice touches include a life ring holder and hands-on stowage let into the coaming. The radar arch is engineered to hinge to reduce the air draught to just over 11ft (3.40m).


SIDE DECKS


BATHING PLATFORM PRAM HOOD CANOPY


BELOW DECK ACCESS


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