Modern boats - no wet locker - what's that all about?

[maby]

I suspect you knew the answer before you asked the question!

Yes, you're right - wet lockers are pretty much a thing of the past. For mass produced boats, it's all about sales volumes and the volume market does regard their boats as floating caravans as someone else suggested. It is all about providing living space and the wet locker is something that gets used too rarely to justify its existence. We had a notional wet locker on our first boat and it just got used as extra storage space - we certainly could not get wet gear into it. On our present Jeanneau there is an area in the heads with a hanging rail and drainage into the shower tray. It normally houses the dehumidifier when not in use and the cleaning materials.

We don't intentionally go out in wet weather - we do get caught out sometimes in which case the heads have to serve as wet locker.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Ahem, my boat has one. New, European.

 

[toad_oftoadhall]

The boat had two further combined heads and showers as well as a forward heads.

For a yacht of that length and internal volume, the lack of any facility to hang wet clothes for 8 persons speaks volumes for what the yacht has been designed for

FFS! Two showers and you can't think of anywhere to hang wet oilies?

 

[photodog]

Ahem, my boat has one. New, European.

Exactly! I don't know what peeps are banging on about..

 

[capnsensible]

But when you were at Faslane, your 'boat' was permanently wet!
You could have been to Bermuda & not known!
Unterseeboots are like that.

Oddly, been to Bermuda twice by 'boat' and three times by yacht!!

Mopeds, dark and stormys, rum swizzle, Nelsons Dockyard, St Georges.....brill.

 

[Brightwork]

We have a wet locker - but it is never used for it's original purpose.

We put wet gear in the Fwd heads / shower at sea, it has a shower tray, you can wash off the salt using the hot shower head, then put on the heating to dry it. The Fwd throne is not in use in bad weather anyway (the midships one being more suitable) but if you need to you can always pull the shower curtain around the foulies.

The true wet locker is where 'Charles' the wet/dry hoover resides nowadays.

 

[Spyro]

FFS! Two showers and you can't think of anywhere to hang wet oilies?

 

[[70521]]

My boat is 30 years old and no wet locker. Does this mean it's a modern boat?

 

[maby]

My boat is 30 years old and no wet locker. Does this mean it's a modern boat?

Way ahead of its time!

 

[Sgeir]

Wet locker envy....

A well ventilated wet locker with a hot air outlet in it surely isn't beyond the scope of modern designers?

Umm, I'm sure you're right about that, but tell me, what does a wet locker look like? Do you have one? I don't think we have one. You know the layout of "Shard" and it's, errmmmm, almost 40 years old. Would the small area around the bog be classified as a "wet locker"?

I like to know these things.

 

[webcraft]

Would the small area around the bog be classified as a "wet locker"?

Dear 'wet envy'

Depends on what you do with it . . .

- W

 

[OGITD]

I wish!

Wet-locker! ….. shower!! …… eberspacher!!! …… I wish!!!!..... you’re going to be wet, you’re going to be cold … but you’re going to have fun I tell you….. now let’s get out there.

 

[jordanbasset]

To sum up this thread, some old boats have wet lockers, some don't, some new boats have wet lockers, some don't. Some people use their showers as a wet locker, some don't.

 

[wotayottie]

The Bavaria 45 Cruiser . ............. the yacht has been designed for: weekend sailing, round the cans racing and marina hopping. .

You're joking of course

 

[maby]

You're joking of course

Don't know the Bavaria 45 specifically, but plenty of people round our way use comparable boats for a bit of "round the cans" - it's all informal stuff and a good way to get a bit of exercise on a Sunday morning.

 

[billmacfarlane]

Doesn't dry it very well keeping it on deck in the p1ssing rain either - but then you don't usually sail in Scotland, do you?

With no wet locker all that happens is it is hung in the heads - rendering them unuseable - or hung in the salon near/over the eber outlets filling the place up with steam.

A well ventilated wet locker with a hot air outlet in it surely isn't beyond the scope of modern designers?

- W

Quite agree. My boat, a relatively modern design, has a wet locker accessed from the heads. It's also got an Eber outlet in it.

 

[Blueboatman]

3 Stages of wet:
Brochure wet: Wet hanging area, it's a sort of temporary dedicated area, unused by me cos it's next to/ part of, in fact, the nice dry cosy wide quarter berth.
Stage 2, Really Dripping Wet: hang stuff in loo and open the overhead hatch to provide cross draft, until drip dry-ish
Stage 3, Overnight Sensation: as with towels, hang on wooden hangers or drape across veggie daynets adjacent to vertical chimney from diesel heater, job done. Blown air outlet would be equally effective I am sure.

 

[ukmctc]

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Just back from skippering a short and somewhat wet charter on a Dufour 36. A nice enough boat, but no wet locker. I know the theory is that the heads can double as a wet locker but using the facilities they are full of dripping foulies is frankly not a pleasant experience . . .

This is not the first 'modern' boat I have skippered recently with no wet locker - but fortunately most previous trips have been dryer. Is this the norm, and does it mean that people no longer go out in the wet?

- W

not needed as they stay in marinas more than go out, and weekenders take their gear home on a sunday.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

FFS! Two showers and you can't think of anywhere to hang wet oilies?

Bavaria couldn't even supply hooks to hang oilies from in any of the showers. The shower head inconveniently drooped down when an oily was hung from it. The moulding for the shower cubicle is very rounded as well and the hatch locks are low profile twist cam types, having no lever to speak of for hanging anything from. You are right I couldn't think, never mind see anywhere in the heads to hang oilies. Perhaps drilling holes for hooks would have resulted in the hull breaking up.

Fortunately the spray hood and Bimini allowed plenty of opportunity to hang wet oilies from, so it wasn't all that bad. In fact, one could lounge around the cockpit table and hang oilies without being inconvenienced or crowded such is the fatness of her ar'se.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

You're joking of course

It depends on the cans.