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She who Must be Obeyed has just expressed a wish to go to the Boat Show.

She is interested in rebuilding the galley, and wants to look at production boats for ideas.


Those who know Mirelle will know that the galley is a very slight advance on what David Hillyard thought was good enough for Arthur Ransome in the 1930's. She has a point.

She has never wanted to go to the Boat Show before.

Should I be concerned?
 
Yes

You'll end up with a linear galley and corian worksurfaces, microwave and split level grill. Start saving for the generator.
 
As many will know, Evgenia Ransome got a new boat 'cos she didn't like the galley in Nancy Blackett. Even though most would agree that her replacement, (Nancy's, not Evgenia's), Selina King, was a very fine boat, ranking higher in CB's Top 200, I happen to know that your seven year itch with Mirelle passed unnoticed circa thirteen years ago, and that a change would not be welcome.

Production boats, certainly those that are exhibited at Excel, are unlikely to offer many appropriate ideas. The Cornish Pilot Cutter might be vaguely appropriate, but you can always have a look at Greenwitch's at Robertsons. The Southampton Show might be better.

You may recollect a thread in January on the subject of this year's show - it got a fairly universal thumbs down from the Classic fraternity.

If you do go to the show, and SWMBO subsequently insists on a remodelling, you can probably get the same units as Bavaria and Beneteau at MFI.

FF

FF
 
I used to have a wife who didn't like sailing. I now have a girl-friend who is looking forward to the next trip out on Swallow. However, she's not interested in the galley; that's my job. She wants to know which sheet or halyard to haul on! The difference is beyond measure! Do explain to wifey that the internal space in a modern plastic-fantastic allows the sort of galley that you just don't have room for, but Mirelle wins on comfort at sea. You can enlarge on this theme over a pub or restaurant dinner after the Show.
Peter.
 
At the risk of incurring the wrath of your wallet, Mirelle, I'd go along with her notion, us chaps get the nav station as our areas the girlies have the galley. If I had to choose, I'd rather have a hot meal and a happy partner than a full wallet.

When MrsE had ideas in this direction abt 10 years ago, the nav station and the galley were both removed, renovated and handed, ie swapped to different sides of the craft. Not cheap but I have to say worth the effort in the long term. Currently, MrsE has a downer on the Force10 cooker which will I suspect end up as a mudweight in the near future.

Wld hv thought that not many boats as Excel wld suit but she (you?) might get a few ideas from suppliers of bits that make up a galley.
 
Go and look around. She and you will pick up some useful ideas. If she doesn't appreciate the aesthetics of Mirelle, and wants an AWB, then you have a problem which could be solved in the way Peterduck did! If you have a normal relationship with partner you value, then ask for her help and discuss the possibilities, having got some ideas from the Boat Show, or anywhere else.

Some of the forum advice is stupidly sexist - it gets a bit wearing at times, although some of the jokes raise a giggle.
 
The trick here is that I'm in charge of Zuline's galley. It's my design and I like it. Celia complains that the back bit is a shambles, but it's a shambles in progress...

Whilst Zuline is a very traditional style of boat the galley has a SS counter top with two sinks set into it. It's not oldy worldy but it surprisingly doesn't look out of place.

There is a middle ground. All the partners in a boat need to be happy. For Celia that includes the way the running rigging is set up, the way the anchor systems work, sea cock placement, stowage, berths and the galley. As well as "that bloody mess behind the chart table".

Get over it and find the middle ground - you need another job for the list don't you? And your wife wants to go to the boat show!!

Mike
 
I'd be shaking in my antiquated maritime footwear if I were you, what would a woman know about a boat galley!! Nowt! They know about kitchens! Thats what you'll end up with!!
 
The real and immediate culprits are in fact two boats which lie close to our own mooring. One is that very lovely Albert Strange yawl six moorings down from us - "Nirvana". Now, it is no use my protesting that Nirvana is owned by a well known cello builder who is married to an international banker, two skills that our family most certainly does not possess - Nirvana has had her galley and saloon rebuilt and she is a little narrower than Mirelle, so "it can be done!" The other is "Cecilia" , on the next mooring, which is Mirelle's little sister and is owned by a retired antiquarian book seller and vintage sports car owner, who also has skills and time.
 
The "deal" has always been that I am not allowed in the kitchen at home but I do all the cooking and washing up on the boat. The "carrot" behind the putative galley rebuild is that this might change!
 
In view of your other post, I am just wondering if, now that Mrs Mirelle has acquired British Citizenship, she is going to start making unreasonable demands, like the rest of the UK's female population!

Be afraid; be very afraid.................. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Not a chance mate, you'll still be doing it!!! Boy I would have thought somebody your age would have figured things out by now!!! Tee hee.
 
tell her that you can fit in a nice new kitchen provided the heads are removed. That will test her priorities.
R
 
First of all...

...I hope this isn't a damning indictment of your on-passage (or on-mooring, for that matter) cooking, as I've enjoyed an unsurpassable meal aboard Mirelle, made entirely from dried engredients.

I think the Show sounds like a superb idea - but I agree that Southampton is probably better for this purpose - and you always can be sure of the discouragement ploy should the new-found designlust prove risky: plan the modifications, plan some snazzy little solutions to difficult problems, get very enthusiastic, and then have a Boatyard cost it up for you. Have a look it it together after dinner. The results of this quote will usually serve to reduce the interest significantly.
 
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