jimi
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SWMO likes sitting at the top of the companion way , is there any seats you can buy to fit the hatch board slots or will I be forced to exercise my bodging skills?
Companionway seat
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Little Five
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Don't know of any you can buy, I made mine out of oak from an old school desk and most useful it is too. The is an original bit of graffiti still on it which reads "Arsenal are sh**e"
Fr J Hackett
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I have one made from teak the upstand slides in the washboard grooves with a board across the top to sit on. Works well I could photograph it next time on the boat if you wish (2 weeks) PM me if you want a photograph.
snowleopard
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It there's one habit on a boat I really hate it's sitting in the companionway so I can't get in and out. A strip of wood to sit in the groove with a few nails sticking through it would do the job for me 
jimi
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It there's one habit on a boat I really hate it's sitting in the companionway so I can't get in and out. A strip of wood to sit in the groove with a few nails sticking through it would do the job for me
.. if you will go sailing with nuns ....
Poignard
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I have a simple plywood seat with two battens uunderneath to keep it in place. It fits across the gap between the forward ends of the cockpit seats with a cushion on it. Very pleasant place to sit when on autopilot or windvane.
Searush
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Centre cockpit Westerly 31's were supplied with such a seat to fit in the aft cockpit entrance for the helmsman. It consists of a good solid chunk of hardwood (approx 18"x6"x1") with rounded edges & a slot in each side to fit the wooden sides (that the wash boards slide into). For additional stability, there are two pieces of 1.5"x1" (fixed edge on underneath the seat) these fit close either side of the lower wash board.
Sorry, hard to describe, but easy to make, just imagine a flat plank with two rails underneath. Put notches in each end to fit in the hatchway & support it on the lower wash board.
BTW, I trust she is available to fetch & carry anything you might need from below, like tea, charts, cake, binoculars, sandwiches etc etc.
I was told that only the Skipper & nobb-heads obstruct the companionway. I assume your missus is the Skipper?
Sorry, hard to describe, but easy to make, just imagine a flat plank with two rails underneath. Put notches in each end to fit in the hatchway & support it on the lower wash board.
BTW, I trust she is available to fetch & carry anything you might need from below, like tea, charts, cake, binoculars, sandwiches etc etc.
I was told that only the Skipper & nobb-heads obstruct the companionway. I assume your missus is the Skipper?
sarabande
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Searush
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john_morris_uk
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I was always taught that owners and backside people sit or stand in the companionway. (I can't bring myself to putting **'s in to alter the traditional alliterative word that goes in the sentence)It there's one habit on a boat I really hate it's sitting in the companionway so I can't get in and out. A strip of wood to sit in the groove with a few nails sticking through it would do the job for me
I guess Jimi's wife is the part owner so she gets to sit there?
However I have been reduced to "Put the kettle on - you're nearest" and "Can you go and write up the log - you're nearest" and "Can you put a fix on the chart - you're nearest" such sentences until they get the message to move.
It is probably different if the crew is SWMBO and the part owner.
Silent Lady
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What you really need is one of these. Great for lobster pot spotting
snowleopard
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E39mad
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What you really need is one of these. Great for lobster pot spotting
Shouldn't that be facing outboard with a hole in the middle
Victoria Sponge
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Ubergeekian
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I'm genuinely baffled. I can't think of a suitable rude word beginning with an 'o' instead of "backside people" and I can't think of suitable rude word beginning with a 'b' instead of "owners". And anyway I don't know what a backside person is - a Jennifer Lopez fan?
Please enlighten me!
Searush
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"Owners & @rses" is the actual phrase I suspect.
prv
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I've always known it as "skippers and arseholes".
Personally I don't mind except in shallow water on boats that have the instruments above the hatch.
Pete
john_morris_uk
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That't the phrase I was alluding to. Its sort of alliterative...?
I think standing in the companionway is fairly antisocial. You are always in the way of people who want to pop below for something.
wiggy
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I used to sail with a friend out of Lymington who would say "there's only two people who can site there (companioneway) owners and assh**es...... and you certainly don't look like the owner" saying that I'll probably make a seat for SWMBO.!!!!!
Searush
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OTOH, it is warm & dry under the sprayhood, with a good view all round & you are pretty well at the boat's CoG so there is relatively little motion. I can see why it is a prized location, even if it blocks everyone's passage.