Mystery Object

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#9999FF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="11e924263.jpg"> <div> <B>The suggestions were:</B></div> <bR> <div> This box is clearly a wine-break box, cleverly stashed away behind the settee in the factory by Jeanneau assembly workers. It is a two-man wine box. Use of this box required skillful coordination of intake wine exhalations between the two participants in order to prevent excessive vacuum.</div> <div> <B>Stephen Watterson</B></div> <bR> <div> Most interesting!!; seeing it, I hasten to agree that it is nothing at all like the pressure accumulator I was envisioning; my '95 37.1 has nothing that looks remotely like that!  looks like it was put in place with a little help from a foot!  maybe it is the night shift's lunch box!</div> <div> <B>Bill</B></div> <bR> <div> Simple.</div> <div> Not supplied by Jeanneau, but custom built in by one of the owners.</div> <div> Purpose? Very clear. Installations like this are used to smuggle "reasonable quantities for personal consumption" of brandy into countries with ridiculously high  tax and duty ie Scandinavia or with laws banning the possesion and/or the consumption ie Saudi Arabia. A check of the previous owners nationality might reveal some more clues :-))</div> <div> <B>JFK</B></div> <bR> <div> Remember these beauties are built in France...</div> <div> So it's the mobile ashtray for the workforce putting the SO 34.2 together,</div> <div> they even made a special locker for it, to comply with the ISO 9002</div> <div> requirements!! </div> <div> <B>Stephan</B></div> <bR> <div> Hmmmm</div> <div> Noticed a nasty smell every time the heads were used???</div> <div> <B>Donald</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>The correct answer goes to:</B></div> <bR> <div> Could it be ballast to balance the weight of the galley / heads?</div> <div> <B>John Hughes</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The definitive answer being:</B></div> <bR> <div> I can reveal all.</div> <bR> <div> John De Feu's Sun Odyssey 34.2 is a 2 cabin version with the larger heads to port and huge cockpit locker to port. This version would normally trim with a slight heel to port. The "black box" is in fact a lead balancing ballast block set to starboard to ensure correct heel trim.</div> <bR> <div> The cut off plastic tubes that you see originally had a line running through them in order to lift the block into place.</div> <bR> <div> I hope this settles the mystery.</div> <bR> <div> Regards</div> <div> <B>NIGEL COLLEY</B></div> <div> <B>Sea Ventures Ltd </B></div> <div> <B>(UK Jeanneau Importers)</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> If you have an unusual jeanneau photo  - please send it in!</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=75 BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Times New Roman" ><B>   |   </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000CC" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" "><U>home</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id352.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Archive data"><U><B><IMG SRC="0430e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>     </B><A HREF="id356.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="SO42DS"><U><B><IMG SRC="0440e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id222.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Jeanneau Magazine"><U><B><IMG SRC="0450e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=405 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#99CCFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="91940403.png"> <div> Mystery Object</div> <div> <B>The following black object was found lurking behind a SO34.2 bulkhead. The suggestions and answer is can be found on the left column. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Please send in any more obscure photos for identification!</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="6c8f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="6c6f4770.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="375" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> </tr></table></body>