Cockpit dodgers

[Greenheart]

Although with the LM's folding cockpit canopy, you possibly have the ultimate dodgers!

 

[LadyInBed]

privacy

What do people do in their cockpit that needs all this privacy?

 

[Laysula]

What do people do in their cockpit that needs all this privacy?

Dunno, I couldn't see.

 

[James_Calvert]

Dunno, I couldn't see.

We hoped you wouldn't...

 

[Poignard]

My boat was equipped with them when I bought her 25 years ago. I took them off and they have been in the attic ever since.

 

[ithet]

Our dodgers are great - keep the wind off and we can still see over. Which I think emphasises the point that they work best if you have a modern (AWB?) higher cockpit yacht. On older boats with deep cockpits they restrict the visibility and you are more out of the wind anyway.

I can see where this is gonna go...

We also have a full cockpit tent. Makes the cockpit into a room.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

If dodgers and tents shield just one ancient overweight yottie wandering around in a thong the rest of society can be truly grateful.

 

[William_H]

From another climate 32 degrees south, of thousands of yachts you might occasionally see dodgers. Mostly not. ol'will

 

[penfold]

On some smaller boats I find they prevent you actually using the winches; some may say this is to discourage the outré habit of sailing to windward.

 

[[70521]]

Useful if sleeping in the cockpit.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Another controversy?
Who likes 'em - and why? Who doesn't.....?

This is about crew members who lurk in the cabin and won't help with the sailing, right?

 

[Stemar]

We also have a full cockpit tent. Makes the cockpit into a room.

We do too. It cost far too much to be sensible on an aging Snapdragon, but it was the best purchase we ever made. The cockpit is now a useful all-weather space when parked

 

[Poignard]

I got rid of our dodgers because they restrict the view when sailing (I like to steer sitting on the lee side of the cockpit and having to keep standing up to peer over the windward dodger is a nuisance).

In port we put up our excellent cockpit enclosure or, if we need shade, the boom tent.

 

[alan_d]

I don't much like them (for my own use), and have removed them from several boats (all small or small-ish) I've owned.

I don't like them, for many of the reasons mentioned in post #20. In addition, I am on a swinging mooring and dodgers would get in the way of me transferring stuff between the tender and the cockpit.

 

[MADRIGAL]

I also have an open cockpit, sans dodgers, where I can feel the wind on my face and almost touch the passing waves.

Part of the true joy of sailing a small boat
- even if those passing waves sometimes climb aboard and touch me.

 

[boatiebert]

I like them.

Just don't have your boat's name stuck on them in big letters, because one day you'll sell it & the next person will want to rename it.