Bouba
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Why don’t yachts have comfortable places to sit outside ?
Food for thought 🤔🤔🤔
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capnsensible
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Why do you think that they don't?
KevinV
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The discomfort is one thing but it's the lack of waiters that bothers me most....garkon, where's my drink?!
Bouba
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veshengro
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By making the cockpit locker lids an inch or so wider when she was built, I was able to sleep comfortably on a Military foam roll mat on the lockers, and did so many many times when at sea. If it was a bit lumpy I had a canvas lee cloth that went under the mat and secured above with lashings to the cockpit guard wires. Lovely, watch the mast head chase the clouds and super comfy too. 
Supertramp
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I have no problem with mine. I can sit here comfortably and see forwards through the pilothouse or lie down for a nap. Its a well sheltered spot at anchor too. It is an unusual layout and not to everyone's taste but works very well for gentle sailing and passages.
I do agree that most boats are very constrained by traditional, often racing inspired, layouts. Not enough start with comfort as a central design feature.
I do agree that most boats are very constrained by traditional, often racing inspired, layouts. Not enough start with comfort as a central design feature.
capnsensible
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What makes you think that?Because it’s impossible to make a yachtie happy
Bouba
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Just going by everyone I’ve ever met
Mister E
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All that means is the were unhappy when they met you.Just going by everyone I’ve ever met
Bouba
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Happy people don’t shed their clothes at the first opportunity
Irish Rover
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Mine does. Actually it has 3 different very comfortable places for socialising and dining each of which can accommodate minimum 6 adults. Of course I don't have a big pole stuck in the middle so the long suffering will comfort themselves by arguing it’s not really a yacht.
Bouba
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You are very much like me....having no business being here
Mister E
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When asked why people who have met you were instantly unhappy.
The response was "it save time".
johnalison
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I am very happy that our cockpit is not overly comfortable. We can provide cushions if needed, but we don’t need our guests hanging around indefinitely and drinking all the ur booze.
capnsensible
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Time for you to meet a second person.Just going by everyone I’ve ever met
mjcoon
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Or of course Groucho's famous riposte: "You should get out more!"...
Bouba
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After the attacks on me fade into history....does anyone think the outside seating on yachts will get more comfortable ?
Dellquay13
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You rarely sit in the same place in Yacht cockpits for long, they are always tipping up and changing angle, what was once a seat soon becomes a back rest or something to stand on while you hang on to stop falling overboard. It’s not easy to make such places comfy with padded seating.
Unless it’s one of those boats that never leave the marina…
Bouba
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My observation comes from marinas….yachts up to fifty foot…the crews spend as much time outside as possible…summer or winter…eating, reading, talking…incessant talking…and please…guitars belong overboard. In winter they are bundled up trying to stay warm and awake till the early hours.
But my observation is that horseshoe seating is just so uncomfortable…whether they are crammed in together socialising or one or two reading or napping
Wansworth
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One of the best sitting places was a long couch or daybed in the wheelhouse of a small coaster,windows at the correct height so one may glance at life going on in harbour or at sea
