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I was aboard a Bav37 last month for a couple of weeks in the Saronic. After having had the best sleep I've ever had aboard a yacht (mostly at anchor, I hasten to add) I wondered what model of boat other readers might recommend for a top night's sleep? Or is it the berth rather than the boat that makes the difference? If so, which berth is best? :-)
 
The type of foam that you would use in a seat, should not be as soft as that used in a dedicated berth, this obviously affects the comfort. It is mostly personal choice, but we bought a Raskelf? (i think it was called) memory foam topper mattress. Its about 50mm thick, shaped to fit the berth we also bought the fitted sheet to go with it and the comfort is fantastic, it has completely transformed the experience.
 
loungelover said:
I was aboard a Bav37 last month for a couple of weeks in the Saronic. After having had the best sleep I've ever had aboard a yacht (mostly at anchor, I hasten to add) I wondered what model of boat other readers might recommend for a top night's sleep? Or is it the berth rather than the boat that makes the difference? If so, which berth is best? :-)
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Endurance 44 ketch, in a double bed!
 
Them Bav37's are dodgy boats mind .... I slept all night in Poole harbour in ours, just waiting to wake up when the keel dropped off ... gave up in the end and had a late breakfast instead! ;)
 
I find I can sleep like a baby when sailing, no matter how rough, or noisy.

2 inches above an engine motorsailing to windward in a F8 and I can sleep until my watch.

But at anchor/in harbour, my sleep is broken.

This might be because of the berths I tend to use at sea and in harbour are different. but I am on the lookout for a new mattress ;)

Having said that I did have a good nights sleep on Sunday night on board MBM's Blue Fin, their Princess 42. I was knackered after working all weekend at the boatshow which might have had more to do with it ;)
 
snooks said:
I find I can sleep like a baby when sailing, no matter how rough, or noisy.

2 inches above an engine motorsailing to windward in a F8 and I can sleep until my watch...
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You're lucky! It normally takes me a good handful of watches before I'm so knackered I can actually fall asleep. I'm too alert to everything going on around me.

Same reason I don't sleep too well at anchor - lots of new noises want investigating...

But tied up alongside, in the forepeak of our Colvic Victor 34, I sleep so well. When we were looking at a few different CV34s to buy we found the forepeaks - like the rest of the interiors - varied from boat to boat, and ours just happens to have the biggest berth out of every one we tried ;-) We need to get a fitted sheet though, as ours always comes untucked - only on James' side, somehow!
 
I have no trouble sleeping in my double berth made up from saloon table dropped down ... typical 70's saloon divan berth.
I like it when sailing - as I can lay at any angle that's best dependent on heel ... I can spread out to distribute my weight !
It has semi hard 'foam' that I find better than hard or soft that makes my back ache.

Worst bunk ? Bav Match 35 saloon berth ... narrow, uncomfortable, in fact a disaster .. TBH - the whole boat was ... and only 3yr old.
 
Wierdly the best sleep i had was in Fowey in the forepeak berth of diadem when it was heavy swells rolling in, about 4-5 weeks ago.

The worst? Falmouth week 2006, a 26ft French cold moulded ply racing boat named Bullit, to be able to qualify for a previous race it had an "interior" fitted. It consisted of a big V shaped bit of wood in the bow, and two cot berths in the hind quarters. Being the smallest crew member i managed to nab the Vberth up for'd as the headroom was only about 2ft! i managed to take enough pillows (without the skipper noticing) to make what resembled a mattress.

Didn't sleep a wink and then the next nearly got chucked over the side as i had no strength to hold on to the genoa sheet during a tack :S
 
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