garvellachs
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We mainly cruise around the west coast of Scotland and the Irish Sea. We sleep in the fore cabin when cruising, on a large v berth with too triangular mattresses. The mattresses are original and need updating. They are hard and 12cm thick but one gets used to them with a shaped duvet as a topper to soften them a bit. We have to lift them up from time to time because the big sail bins are underneath and other things as well as sails are stored there.
We are looking for new comfortable mattresses. The choice seems to be a sandwich of memory foam 3 or 5 cm thick over a medium or medium/hard foam; or a single layer of cool-something foam without the memory bit; or maybe latex. I'm sure pocket springs are comfy but I reckon they'd be too heavy to keep lifting for the sail bins? Overall we think 15cm thickness would suffice. Neither of us is heavy, so about 10 or 11 stone per person.
My question is whether memory foam is worth it. It seems prone to getting hot and sweaty - no supplier refers to it without the measures being taken to mitigate the heat problem. And it seems not to suit the side sleeper like us who likes to turn over etc.
What please are people's experiences of berth mattresses with and without memory foam in recent years?
We are looking for new comfortable mattresses. The choice seems to be a sandwich of memory foam 3 or 5 cm thick over a medium or medium/hard foam; or a single layer of cool-something foam without the memory bit; or maybe latex. I'm sure pocket springs are comfy but I reckon they'd be too heavy to keep lifting for the sail bins? Overall we think 15cm thickness would suffice. Neither of us is heavy, so about 10 or 11 stone per person.
My question is whether memory foam is worth it. It seems prone to getting hot and sweaty - no supplier refers to it without the measures being taken to mitigate the heat problem. And it seems not to suit the side sleeper like us who likes to turn over etc.
What please are people's experiences of berth mattresses with and without memory foam in recent years?