That would work john. Stowed it would be to left of picture (to port); deployed it would slide rightwards. Catch is, and sorry to reveal info piecemeal, that corner of the shower room is made in nice bent plywood, about 4 inch radius. I'd have to have it made square to deploy your idea, plus fairline would go crazy about fitting slide tracks in view of me already being over my allowance on customisation hours. For reasons given above I need to stick with my simple heath robinson idea, even though i agree yours is better
OK I'll stick to mechanical and electrical engineering it's easier
The partition panel would have to slide out of the cupboard (shower room) to left of pic. So it would slide rightwards as you deploy it, in the above photo. It cannot go the other way around, becuase the bed on the right is on top of a water tank that continues forward under the wardrobe, and under a passerelle which also passes right thru the wordrobe. The panel cannot therefore slide back into the wardrobe area becuase of this tank and passerelle, unless it is a hollow panel with slide down+up fill in sections within the panel itself, which feels too much trouble to me. Sorry to be revealing the constraints a bit piecemeal!
OK white caulking.
I have 2 test panels here and I'm trying and failing to photograph what I mean.
For some bizarre reason, wood with white caulk looks lighter than wood with black caulk, when the wood is identical. I don't mean the overall look, I mean the wood itself. This is illogical and you would expect it to be the other way around.
This just reinforces what you said about having to keep white caulked teak cleaner than black caulked for it to look right.
Other observations:
I love the way you design boats, from an aesthetic and engineering viewpoint. Some of your aesthetic design choices I don't actually like, even though I love the boat and it's design, if that makes sense.
If I had the £000,000s to spend I would copy your engineering and have some colours etc different. I wouldn't criticise your aesthetic choices because they're personal. Well I would criticise the scatter cushions
So decks. For me teak and holly is for inside, teak and black caulk is for outside. But that's aesthetic.
However with the decks, the white is an inferior choice from an engineering viewpoint. It doesn't last as long, and it is harder to maintain. Even if you prefer the look of the white, you don't hate the black and it does its job as a deck.
The black must be the right choice therefore.
You asked for opinions. There's mine like it or not.
The inside and outside look of Match2 will be very different from Match 1 though. There will be no browns and beiges in the fabrics and leathers, which is pretty unusual. On reflection I think Match1 was too conservative
Chris: , you, me and A&K need to hang out at the same nightclubs mate. We'll fix some dates for next year.Sounds like a dream to me! TBH, I'm getting a bit fed up with all the creams/beiges in our boat now.
Love the link to those Zinc fabrics BTW
Yep, I had a good look at it. It actually had several silver fabrics like those in the zinc range (by Romo) that i linked to above. I thought it had very nice interior except I thought there was too much grey painted wood and it would have looked better with more real woodgrain, either walnut or dark wenge, but that's just my taste. Could be a very nice boat if they can get the build standard a bit higher and I'm looking forward to reading the mag tests to find out how 50tonnes moves with 2x1250hp (pod drives)
Chris: , you, me and A&K need to hang out at the same nightclubs mate. We'll fix some dates for next year.
No I dont know. They said hull = contract manufacturer in Taiwan ,fit out Portsmouth, but I dont know which firm or whether Pearl have got their own facility in Portsmouth. Others have said more is done in Taiwan. I don't know but you'd need clearer info before buying
If Pearl do have a facility in Portsmouth, it must be new because their manufacturing base is somewhere in the Midlands. Yes to spend the kind of money they're asking for their 75, you'd want to be very sure that the yards they're using for the hull and fit out have sufficient experience. I'm not sure but actually I'd heard they were moulding some of their hulls in Turkey
