Aft cabin toilet

[Laminar Flow]

You wouldn't be able to use it if tacking during an off-watch, though without any experience I assume for ocean work the question is more "shall we tack today or tomorrow?" How comfortable is sleeping with your feet substantially below your head? In a conventional lengthways berth with a leecloth or a solid side, you tend to snuggle into the angle and it doesn't feel like your bed is tilted at all.

Personally I'm sceptical of a composting toilet on a seagoing vessel - fine for canal boats and such, but does it work well when heeled and being shaken up? And carrying a large unsealed tank of shit around just seems like a liability - if nothing else it's surely a good way to make the aftermath of a knockdown *really* unpleasant. Better to get that stuff overboard and out of your life ASAP.

Pete

Firstly, re composting toilet: friends of ours installed one on their Atkins gaff cutter. Marine toilets can be marginal at best, olfactorily speaking. Theirs stunk to high heaven. Also the process of removing the urine receptacle and carrying it up to the harbor loo every two days was a memorable experience. Fortunately I was never involved in discharging the "compostable" part. Bon appetit! They lived on board and aoided using their head whenever they could, preferring to walk 250 through the rain at night. If you want to go green, install a sewage tank and use the pump-out.

An athwartship berth has no place aboard a seagoing vessel. At best it might suit a yogi, keen on standing on his head or retired night watch men used to sleeping standing up.

What Pete said.

 

[RupertW]

An athwartship berth has no place aboard a seagoing vessel. At best it might suit a yogi, keen on standing on his head or retired night watch men used to sleeping standing up.

I would agree but my wife definitely wouldn’t.

We use one of the twin aft cabin doubles at sea which I find fine to lie against whatever wall is down (cushioned by a rolled duvet), but her habit is to sleep across the bed with head up and feet down and wouldn’t have it any other way.