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

billmacfarlane said:
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.
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+1. And if there isn't enough space, I can hang em on the back of the door in the heads, which has hooks.

And it's a Bavaria :eek:
 
photodog said:
..... I can hang em on the back of the door in the heads, which has hooks.....
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Darn, those crafty Germans, the back of the door! Who would have thought, not me it appears, will I ever learn!
 
My oilies are waterproof so I don't need a wet locker. I turn them inside out so that they don't make anything else wet, and don't let the inside touch the outside so the inside doesn't get wet. Yes, I may need to allow them to drip for 5 minutes on the rare occasion I get stuck on watch in the Irish Sea in a storm, but usually they are damp at best.

Can anyone explain why I need the outside of my oilies to be dry? :rolleyes:
 
lustyd said:
My oilies are waterproof so I don't need a wet locker. I turn them inside out so that they don't make anything else wet, and don't let the inside touch the outside so the inside doesn't get wet. Yes, I may need to allow them to drip for 5 minutes on the rare occasion I get stuck on watch in the Irish Sea in a storm, but usually they are damp at best.

Can anyone explain why I need the outside of my oilies to be dry? :rolleyes:
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Because green mould isn't a fashion item!:D
 
Angele is a 2005 Dufour 40. Not a current production model, but "modern" according to most people's use of the word.

The D40 came with 2 aft cabin arrangements:

Two aft cabins (in addition to the forward one). Reasonable sized heads with shower as one. No wet locker.

OR

One aft cabin. Separate shower compartment from heads and wet locker in shower compartment that doesn't get wet from the shower. Also, deep, cavernous cockpit locker.

I went for the second option and added a hot air vent from the Webasto straight into the wet locker. It does mean that a crew member or two occasionally have to sleep in the saloon, but I can store wet oilies out of the way (and also keep a dinghy and o/b safely locked away).

So, not all manufacturers of modern boats think about wet lockers, but some do!! ;)
 
alant said:
Because green mould isn't a fashion item!:D
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As luck would have it, I'm never away for more than a month and tend to wash my clothes when I get home. Appologies if you're a live aboard and never wash, I was talking about the average sailor ;)
 
Leighb said:
So that when they are dry enough you can put them away in your dry hanging locker, ready for the next time they might get wet. :D
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If its dry enough to put them away then dry them outside. If not you'll be wearing them again surely?
 
some designs used by sunsail have the option of holding tank OR wet locker, not both. All sunsail boats have holding tank, jimi, so no sunsailers see wet lockers and thiv gradually realised they can get away with them. Another massive loss, like foot-switches for dipping headlights on a car.
 
The likes of Middleton and MacGregor and MacMullen would have been completely unmanned in one of these namby pamby Legend s with showers and boudoiurs but lacking a wet locker ......
 
mogy said:
The likes of Middleton and MacGregor and MacMullen would have been completely unmanned in one of these namby pamby Legend s with showers and boudoiurs but lacking a wet locker ......
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I've been sailing, on and off, for more than 40 years. The names you quote mean nothing to me. I suspect they mean nothing to the vast majority of sailors.

Things change, over time. Of course a wet locker can be useful but for many of us it's about as essential as a clothes mangle or a yoghurt maker.
 
Coaster said:
I've been sailing, on and off, for more than 40 years. The names you quote mean nothing to me. I suspect they mean nothing to the vast majority of sailors.

Things change, over time. Of course a wet locker can be useful but for many of us it's about as essential as a clothes mangle or a yoghurt maker.
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I agree things have changed. They have been made to change, rather, don't you think ?

They have been made to change to capture the market of Pond Sailors, who exclusively prefer flat water and sunny days.:D

But for those of us who are not frightened of a bit of wind and like a good heave ho and the spray cracking across like gravel thrown about, wet lockers are a plus.
 
tcm said:
some designs used by sunsail have the option of holding tank OR wet locker, not both. All sunsail boats have holding tank, jimi, so no sunsailers see wet lockers and thiv gradually realised they can get away with them. Another massive loss, like foot-switches for dipping headlights on a car.
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That illustrates the dilemma. There are so many competing demands on the space in a boat. My Bavaria originally had a a small wet locker in the loo but was lost as it was the only sensible place to put a retrofit holding tank. Just a matter of priorities - and two extra pegs put on the loo bulkhead over the shower tray serves quite adequately.

Also not sure where the idea comes from that the lack of a wet locker is something associated with recent/modern boats. It has always been a rarity for exactly the same reason - prioritising the use of limited space on smaller boats. As Solent boy explains above, even with a substantial sized boat, custom built, not every owner would allocate scarce space to a wet locker, preferring the compromise of using a loo compartment. Of course the decision might have been different if designing a boat for a different environment where wet gear was the norm, rather than an exception that can be easily dealt with by a dual purpose facility.
 
VO5 said:
I agree things have changed. They have been made to change, rather, don't you think ?
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I don't see that things have been 'made to change'. That implies external direction or control. I think that most changes are simply a response to circumstances.

Judging by other comments in this thread most boats, built in any decade, did not have wet lockers. Modern materials and typical boat use now make them even less necessary, hence their increasing rarity.
 
To my mind the modern solutions are simply a better design.

A large versatile space that can be used as shower/bog/wet locker according to circumstances/whim is, AFAIC, a far better design than a poky bog, no shower and the typically awkward, tiny dedicated wet lockers on old boats we grew up with.
 
toad_oftoadhall said:
To my mind the modern solutions are simply a better design.

A large versatile space that can be used as shower/bog/wet locker according to circumstances/whim is, AFAIC, a far better design than a poky bog, no shower and the typically awkward, tiny dedicated wet lockers on old boats we grew up with.
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You have hit the nail squarely on its head Toad.
 
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