Hi Rachel: I am 5'3", recently spent two nights on my M17 4 berth model (one jammed in the quarterberth and one in the cockpit), and I am intrigued with your idea of joining the settee berths into a double. On this particular weekend, the V berth was filled with the usual junk. How did you place the board? Was it one big board or two or three sections (easier to stow). How did you support it from underneath or was placing the boards over the berths enough? One of my next projects is to convert the cockpit area using removable boards into one big double berth. I am thinking that by carefully designing the boards, I might be able to use them down below for this purpose. Thanks for you (or anyone's) input. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rachel" <penokee@cheqnet.net> To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: settee bed
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)
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