Dinette,design of the devil

[Wansworth]

There is a Hurley 27 for sale in the ria de Arosa bit expensive at 12,000 euros but what is a blow is it has a dinette arrangement with lineal galley so no proper place to lie down ,only sitting cramped up or being banished to the fore peak.Whoever devised the idea should have been shot.The idea I suppose the happy couple will put the dinette down at night for some hanky lanky…….well put me off ,well and then there are those awful black Perspex windows……..

 

[penfold]

You're gonna need those tinted windows if you're having all this hanky panky.

 

[Wansworth]

You're gonna need those tinted windows if you're having all this hanky panky.

Quite,although I imagine a list port And exaggerated movement could indicate activity

 

[Praxinoscope]

Sounds similar to the layout in my Sadler 25, but never really had a problem as SWMBO refuses to set foot on the boa, (possibly goes back to first time she ever came sailing, it was to crew on a race was seasick and got hit by the boom, so she decided sailing wasn't for her) and as my days of 'extra curricular activities' are over, (divorces are nasty, expensive and usually mean selling the boat) the dinette/double bunk arrangement is usually left as dinette/nav table.

 

[Stemar]

Agree that the dinette arrangement isn't all that convenient, though it works well enough for eating. We'd have guests on board maybe twice a year, so the faff of turning it into a bed wasn't a problem.

What really fixed things from the lounging around point of view was getting a full cockpit tent. Far too expensive to justify on a Snapdragon, but it was a life changer, so no regrets. We' d be sitting outside even when it was raining and, as the evening got cooler, we could close the sides and we'd still be sitting in the cockpit on our comfy cushions, drinking an amicable glass of something and enjoying the view long after everyone else in the anchorage had retreated below.

 

[rogerthebodger]

Quite,although I imagine a list port And exaggerated movement could indicate activity

As its said " If the boas a rocking don't come a knocking"

 

[geem]

Agree that the dinette arrangement isn't all that convenient, though it works well enough for eating. We'd have guests on board maybe twice a year, so the faff of turning it into a bed wasn't a problem.

What really fixed things from the lounging around point of view was getting a full cockpit tent. Far too expensive to justify on a Snapdragon, but it was a life changer, so no regrets. We' d be sitting outside even when it was raining and, as the evening got cooler, we could close the sides and we'd still be sitting in the cockpit on our comfy cushions, drinking an amicable glass of something and enjoying the view long after everyone else in the anchorage had retreated below.

Yep, we used to do that. We would even put the heater on and still sit in the cockpit with all that lovely heat coming up from below.

 

[ChromeDome]

….well put me off ,well and then there are those awful black Perspex windows……..

So that is it then

Fast forward to the next boat in view

 

[Wansworth]

So that is it then

Fast forward to the next boat in view

 

[johnalison]

We had a dinette on our first boat, a Westerly Cirrus. It was fine the first year but by the second our eldest’s head had reached the side-deck, so we sold the boat. Starving the children didn’t seem an option.

 

[greeny]

Another one bites the dust then?

 

[Wansworth]

Another one bites the dust then?

It’s been forsale for at least three years,same price andI did call him but he seemed to have little interest in selling,he has it advertised asSwedish design.

 

[V1701]

If I wanted the boat I'd have a removable table on a Lagun leg, a cushion between the dinette seats then you have a U shaped dinette with room to lounge...