Saloon table designs

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I'll be making a new saloon for a chum and the more ideas I can look at/borrow, the better.
Anyone got any nice pics or links they can post for me?
I'm a competent and experienced chippy with all the skills and City & Guilds but failing eye sight means I can't do secret mitre dovetails any more. Material would be teak; still humming and haaing about ply carcase or solid. There's a metal swivelly support that I'll be using so it's really just the top I'm considering. Considering incorporating a bottle store in a central section.
Thanks to anyone who's got owt relevant and useful.
 
I can't help with the details but I would say that for most of us, fiddles are a waste of effort. A bottle store for 8-12 bottles is what a table is for.
 
I appreciate the issues and am jealous of the skills

I've made 3 table tops, solid African Ash, until I was happy (my skill progressed with practice).

But if you post photos of the location you might engender replies as designs depend on space.

I agree with johnalison but drinking from bottles is soooo uncouth and we have a a series of racks to hold the glassware, with the emphasis on the 'glass', as well as the bottle storage. We sail a catamaran, and we don't have fiddles.

Jonathan
 
We use silicone mats. if it falls over - it would have fallen over anyway. and with silicone - nothing moves and they protect the wood (of the table).

Jonathan
 
I made a very modest single drop-leaf table top, and fiddles (with gaps for cleaning) at least cover the end grain or ply – even if that’s a woodworking ‘fiddle’ which serves no other purpose! (I do think they help contain small spills.) I used a hefty aluminium pillar, with a short alternative so the top can be dropped for a double berth. If that or knee room to move around U-shaped seating is needed, a bottle store might perhaps be a nuisance – but I guess you’ve thought through such things. It might help respondents were you to explain a bit more about the ‘metal swivelly support’.
 
Thanks everybody - much appreciated. The boat is a veteran 33' long keeler. Interior is mostly teak except for existing table which has to covered with unconvincing teak look formica....and it's chipped away in places.
I'll stick to the existing dims: it's a central narrow rectangle which is supported by the rotating pillar we will retain. The central bit has two flaps which are supported by hinged brackets underneath; so, like lots and lots of other cabin tables.
My uncertainty probably is around how to treat the corners if I use ply. Round them off, obviously, but then there's the lipping problem. Mebbe Robbins or Howells do ready machined arcs.
Or, there's solid throughout which means all can be done "in house".
The discussion has helped a lot - focussed what remains of my brain. Remaining detail is the bottle store - any cunning designs anyone knows of?
 
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