On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 05:44 PM, Honshells wrote:
Rachel, I'm having trouble picturing how a board across the non-galley M17 settees could create a bed . . . You couldn't lay fore/aft, or port/starboard, could you? Thanks, Craig
Hi Craig, I'm 5'6" and I could lie quite comfortably athwartships (ie: feet to port, head to starboard and plenty of room for the pillow without jamming it up against the side of the hull) on the settee area of the M-17. I don't remember how "close" it was in terms of taller people being able to do it. I'm not fond of quarterberths because I like to be able to put my knees up and just generally thrash around a bit, being a bit of an insomniac. At any rate, the non-galley 17 (early-eighties model) had a port side that was a mirror image of the starboard side, if that helps you to visualize it. As I understand it, later models had a "short-berth" option which retained the settee - and enough of a quarterberth section for a child to lie fore-and-aft - but then had the better cockpit-accessible storage of the galley model. Not that you couldn't do a little creative cutting and do something like that with the non-galley earlier model... BTW, Craig - did you realize that when you reply to list posts, your mail program doesn't retain/insert an "Re"? Thus it always looks like you're starting a new thread even when you're continuing an existing one. FWIW, --- Rachel Former owner, M-17 #334 Former owner, M-15 #517 Currently cruising on Westsail 32 #412 (actually, right this minute, trying to dig through the snow and jam my car into an already-packed storage locker in northern Wisconsin - ugh)