I've used the galley a lot on SWEET PEA over the past 11 weeks as I'm living aboard. The sink is really to small. Challenge to wash dishes though it is fine to spitting when brushing teeth (I do this when in harbor as folks look at you with negative eyes - even though their graywater is going to the same place just via a sink!). As said already it is great for holding winch handles, cell phones, keys. The flat location will work for a small stove. A thing to be very careful with if used as fire in a VERY SMALL space can get very QUICKLY!! I've cooked inside a fair amount like when it is raining or very windy. When it is hot or cooking oderous things, say seafood, in the cabin causes it's own issues of smell and heat and the cockpit is best. Cooking 'humid' things, say pasta, also is a problem as you make the cabin VERY damp. Be very aware of CO in a confined space! For me if it the galley wasn't there all would be good as I would just cook the cockpit, or in a pinch cook on one of the 1/4-berth 'seats'. This is how I did it on my M15, the Sage 17 and the Sage 15. For space, as Jerry wrote, the double 1/4-berth, or non-quarterberth like on the Sages, is much better for having storage space in both cabin and cockpit along with two seats for two people. The galley model is a one person cruiser as there is only one cabin seat. :: Dave Scobie :: M17 #375 SWEET PEA - m17-375.com On Thu, Jul 12, 2018, 12:44 PM <jerry@jerrymontgomery.org> wrote:
I had the sailmaker make up a 7X7 tarp of acrylan with a grommet in each corner, then used two whisker poles to go in front and back, and a line off each corner. it can be set up with the poles either over or under the boom, and can easily be canted either way to dodge the sun by adjusting the corner lines, which go down to the rails. I learned this from some of my cruising buddies in Tucson, who sail in Mexico. Even more proof that I know how to listen, despite what some say. A 6X6 tarp works well on the 15. When sailing I roll everything up together and lash it to the toe rail.
-----Original Message----- From: John Schinnerer Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:06 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Use of the Galley
On 07/12/2018 11:38 AM, jerry@jerrymontgomery.org wrote: ...
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.
That's basically what I have been thinking to do with mine, so not a surprise someone else thought about it years ago. He just beat you to it Jerry, you would have thought of it eventually ;-)
Since I'm tall I'll make the port "seat" a bit lower than the stbd quarter berth height so I can not bump the ceiling even with some cushion under my butt. And a backrest as well. Where the existing 'galley' molding is aft of the seat will be some kind of storage. I've thought about building in a small cooler. Aft of that I want to keep open for storage, as it is now, at least for the lower part of the area where open space length is good to slide in oars, boathooks, etc.
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.
Makes sense...I hope to do some of that kind of warm weather cruising but sometimes I'll also be in the northwest, where it's nice to be able to hunker down in 'adequate comfort' below for a little while.
Care to share your design for M17 boom awning?
cheers, John
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