Wheatley is mostly right- initially, dealers wanted a galley, but I've never used the sink as a sink. Good storage under, and a great place to put the winch handles. All the 17's were made this way for the first two or three hundred boats, then a couple of dealers in Texas, who were selling lots of boats and were therefore important, talked me into eliminating the galley and replacing it with another quarter berth. That was an option for a few years, but it had drawbacks, with the important one being the elimination of under-cockpit storage. The only good thing was important; the fwd part of the berth was a good place to sit, and made the seating arrangement much better for those who spend time below.. The quarterberths are really too small on the 17 except for really skinny people and kids, and I never liked that version. One day a guy walked into the shop, looked things over, and asked if we could build him a boat with the fwd part of the port berth in place as a place to sit, but cut off the part under the cockpit and use it for storage. Bingo! I like to think that I come up with all the good ideas, but maybe this time only, I was wrong. One of these things that seems really simple but took some thinking to come up with, like E=MC squared. It worked so well that I tooled a new mold for it and threw away the tooling for the two earlier versions. I've done all my cruising in warm weather, mostly in Mexico, where I do everything in the cockpit under a boom awning, and the area below is necessary only for stowage, and this influences my thinking. -----Original Message----- From: Jason Leckie Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 9:29 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats Subject: Re: M_Boats: Use of the Galley 😄 On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 9:21 AM , <swwheatley@comcast.net> wrote:
That Little Tikes play sink was put there to promote spousal approval at boat shows. On the water, it is useless except as a storage bin. Glassing over the drain hole is an upgrade.
-----Original Message----- From: montgomery_boats <montgomery_boats-bounces@mailman.xmission.com> On Behalf Of Jason Leckie Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 11:46 AM To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats < montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: M_Boats: Use of the Galley
Just curious, does anybody actually cook in their galley or do they generally do most of it in the cockpit? As well, my sink drain and through hull fitting for the drain has been removed and the hole glassed over. Might it be worthwhile to reinstate?