Cabin table for a small boat

[nathanlee]

I found a cracking bit of kit at the boat show and it gave me an idea. I've since got home, and made it

For anybody with a small boat (22ft and less probably), here's what I've done with some pics.

http://onkudu.com/fitting-out-kudu/corribee-cabin-table/

 

[VicS]

Here is my idea for a cabin table for a small boat.

Stows in the forepeak

Can be sited so mostly forward or mostly in the main cabin
Also fixes to the main sheet horse to make a cockpit table.

In reverse order:

 

[AngusMcDoon]

I found a cracking bit of kit at the boat show and it gave me an idea. I've since got home, and made it

http://onkudu.com/fitting-out-kudu/corribee-cabin-table/

Washboard cockpit table, standard stuff on a Dragonfly...

 

[anniebray]

I found a cracking bit of kit at the boat show and it gave me an idea. I've since got home, and made it

For anybody with a small boat (22ft and less probably), here's what I've done with some pics.

http://onkudu.com/fitting-out-kudu/corribee-cabin-table/

I bought a Lagun swivel table kit also from Howells which I have fitted as a cockpit table & I agree its a brilliant bit of kit. I made the table top myself with fiddle rail & teak veneered marine ply also supplied by Howells and made it sufficiently large to seat 6 people but its also a nice size for just 2 with room also for my gas BBQ (or gas stove or electric griddle plate). We usually leave the table in the cockpit when in port, swivelled into one corner but it easily dismantles & stores in the forecabin when underway.

 

[ninky]

you want to round off those corners though nathan. could do yerself a mischief in a seaway

 

[nathanlee]

you want to round off those corners though nathan. could do yerself a mischief in a seaway

Haha. Yes, but it wouldn't work as an emergency washboard then. Also, the table won't be up at sea. The boat is never upright enough to use it.

 

[dunmor]

table

splendid idea nathan, well done! Is your boat always that messy?

 

[Billjratt]

one step too far ?

We had a boat with wheel steering on the bridgedeck and emergency tiller access at the back of the cockpit. A slab of wood fitted athwartships into moulded grooves in the cockpit seats abaft the bridgedeck as a seat or to stand on when steering, but no table.
As the boat changed from an IOR racer to a Med cruiser, the bit of wood took on a few more responsibilities: Turn it upside down in its grooves and you find bolts to fix the vise to. (very steady and swarf gets hosed down the cockpit drains) mount an SS fitting to fit an SS tube which fits in the cover thread for the emergency tiller, and you have a cockpit table which swivels to allow access to the heads from all sides as the beer disappears. Take off the table, but leave the ss tube, and you have an in-cockpit outboard motor mounting station which allows maintenance without losing bits overboard.
The longer you spend time on your boat the worse it gets, so if you are looking to buy an ex-liveaboard, spend a bit of time figuring out WTF everyrthing is for!

 

[jonjo]

Is your boat always that messy?

Your average mermaid has her standards.

 

[nathanlee]

splendid idea nathan, well done! Is your boat always that messy?

I'm undergoing a major refit, nay, a rebuild of her whilst still living aboard, so yes, she's always that messy

 

[prv]

if you are looking to buy an ex-liveaboard, spend a bit of time figuring out WTF everyrthing is for!

I second that - Kindred Spirit spent a couple of years in the Med and the French canals. Fortunately she only has 24 feet of length for the previous owner to hide custom-built widgets and gizmos in

Every now and then another piece of beautifully-crafted but bizarrely-shaped varnished timber or polished stainless turns up on my parents' doorstep, complete with copperplate note about what it's for and apologies that he's only just found it in one of his many outbuildings. Unfortunately most of them are from her canal-cruising days and not immediately useful to us, but even basic mast props and temporary lights are works of inventive and creative genius.

Pete