I have a 17 I have not yet slept aboard, but it seems to me you want something like a "lee cloth" you could stretch across the berth. Basically a piece of cloth you lay under your bedding and then bring upwards to a rope you string from the bow to some point towards the companionway. your weight keeps the cloth down and the rope keeps it like a curtain so if you roll against it, you go no further. On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:58 AM brad kurlancheek <bkurlancheek@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello All, Given the state of things, have thought of doing some extended cruising in my M15. One of my concerns is the sleeping arrangements in the cabin. After a few 5 day cruises in the Monty, I've decided, there just has to be a better way, than what I've been doing. First, I discarded all the cushions. They reduce sitting headroom height! Every inch counts in the Monty 15 cabin. Mainly, I've been sleeping head at bow, on the port side. I sleep in a sleeping bag, on top of a couple of body-length 22"-wide camping cushion pads. The bed is soft enough - that's not the problem. It's getting into the sleeping bag that's an exercise in calistenics, and getting out. Furthermore, there's all that room, to starboard. I liked to be wedged, when sleeping in a boat. I'm not sure how to assure that on the Monty, other than putting sacks of spare blankets between me and the starboard hull. I'm not much satisifed with that solution though. I've considered making some kind of wooden border, but that might be unwieldy. One other thing I do is stuff sacks of more gear into the bow triangle, so as to give me something behind the two pillows I use. Otherwise, the pillows just migrate into that wedge, while failing to take me with them.
I'd be curious to know how others situate themselves when sleeping at anchor on their M15s.
Thanks in advance,
- Brad