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 -- John Schinnerer - M.A., Whole Systems Design -------------------------------------------- - Eco-Living - Whole Systems Design Services People - Place - Learning - Integration john@eco-living.net - 510.982.1334 http://eco-living.net http://sociocracyconsulting.com