alant
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Which do you prefer?
Port or Starboard galley?
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newtothis
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Port; can then heave to on starboard tack and not have to make your tea uphill.
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I am right handed so prefer port.
alant
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Surely you pass with your left.
newtothis
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I'll drink any port... in a storm.
horatio_nelson
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Port. For no reason other than it just feels right. Even though it's on the left 
Port galleys seem more common to me but that may just be confirmation bias
Port galleys seem more common to me but that may just be confirmation bias
pvb
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Don't think I've ever had a port galley on any of my boats.
Tranona
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Not sure it really matters. Either side seems just as common, although of course on real yachts the galley will be forward of the mast and probably athwartships, closed off with a door so you can't see the paid hand preparing your food.
Lucky Duck
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So far it has been four boats port side and one starboard
johnalison
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All my four boats have been port. I hadn't thought about it before, but now that I have, I don't think I am any the wiser.
bitbaltic
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Our galley and heads are opposite each other, heads on port. The boat is not big enough for both to be in the same side. Am happy to make tea uphill in exchange for being able to use the heads downhill (and pump it out at all) on starboard.
Thinking about it it would be nice if that was the designer's intention when the boat was made but doubt it somehow. And we never go hove-to anyway.
Ardenfour
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Surely to port, as one can then prepare food below, safe in the knowledge that one has right of way...
Malabar
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As already pointed out, best heave to on the stbd tack to make you the "stand on" vessel. Therefor galley to port so that the cook is "uphill" from his/her pots. I would add that the starboard side is where the chart table should be so that the skipper can keep a good look out on the side where he/she needs to give way.
[70521]
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Both boats that I have owned have had the galley on the starboard side so that is what I consider normal.
As I have a small boat (10m) heaving to or not being able to see out any window from the chart table has never been a problem.
biscuit
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Port, but number of times I have used the galley when hove to in 25 years of sailing: nil so far.
Kelpie
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First boat had sink to stb and cooker to port, so I guess it's 'both' or 'neither'.
Current boat has galley to stb. I think this is because the engine, mounted in the saloon, is offset to port (presumably something to do with prop rotation favours this side?) so that drives the rest of the cabin layout.
Current boat has galley to stb. I think this is because the engine, mounted in the saloon, is offset to port (presumably something to do with prop rotation favours this side?) so that drives the rest of the cabin layout.
Tranona
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Good point. Tradition is far removed from modern reality. Suspect most cooking is done in a marina or at anchor rather than at sea.
prv
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Agree, for the vast majority.
We do cook at sea, but so far I don't think we've ever heaved-to to do it.
I do heave-to occasionally for other purposes, but the tack we end up on isn't decided based on colregs. I don't think I've ever needed to manoeuvre while hove-to on the port tack to avoid another yacht on starboard.
I drew up a sketch design (ie, no actual naval architecture) a while back, and put the galley to port. It wasn't a conscious decision though. The layout had the main engine access to the starboard side; maybe if I ever firmed it up into a real design (won't happen) and the chosen engine had the service points on the port side, I would flip the whole layout. I believe Hallberg Rassy did that between two iterations of their 36.
Pete
Tranona
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Interesting point on designing layouts around service points on engines.
From observation modern engines tend to be the same with (looking aft) fuel systems on the left and electrics on the right, water pumps on the front. The two types of Volvo , one Yanmar and one Nanni (Kubota) that I have owned are all like that and the two Bavarias both have big lift up front panels and access panels either side in aft cabins.
So, no influence on galley placement.
From observation modern engines tend to be the same with (looking aft) fuel systems on the left and electrics on the right, water pumps on the front. The two types of Volvo , one Yanmar and one Nanni (Kubota) that I have owned are all like that and the two Bavarias both have big lift up front panels and access panels either side in aft cabins.
So, no influence on galley placement.
prv
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That's the layout of my D1-30, certainly. But I wouldn't count the electrics as a service point - of course you need to be able to reach any part of the engine if it develops a fault, but I don't do any regular servicing on the port side of mine. The starboard side normally (mine have been relocated for convenience) carries the oil and fuel filters and the sump pump-out point, and those are definitely service items.
Where there are symmetrical aft cabins then of course the engine access can be similar each side and makes no difference to anything else. But in my design the port side of the engine would have been behind the fridge in the galley without any access (you'd reach it over the top of the engine, which had enough space above and around to do so) so it does have an effect. Indeed in my actual (as opposed to fantasy) boat the other side of the engine is against the heads and there is no hatch, presumably for reasons of waterproofing.
Pete
