Space below decks-Pipedream

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I've just been looking at the details and pics of Pipedream. She's a foot longer than Maestro, but has 6 berths and a very decent looking galley. We have 4 berths (well, 3 and a half, but one of us is only half tall!), a 'sink' the size of a teacup, and a single gas ring. And nowhere to put a hot pan down. I realise that Maestro is very very shabby downstairs, but new linings and cusions wouldn't create all that space!? Is Pipedream really 26ft? Is she a Tardis? What have I missed?
 
The Centaur is a big roomy boat whilst your folkboat is from an earlier more traditional design.

She has full standing headroom but might not sail quite as well as a well tuned folkboat with her bilge keels. (Mind you tell that to 'seven isles' the bilge keel Hunter 27 in Bernie's class at Burnham Week which seems to point as well as any other boat sailing in the class.)

Glad to see you out and about a lot - have to get you over to Brightlingsea next season!
 
Your finely honed craft looks nice and sails well. You must suffer for your art.

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The Centaur is also a fine craft. Ahem. A little more bulky perhaps?

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moondancer said:
The Centaur is a big roomy boat whilst your folkboat is from an earlier more traditional design.

She has full standing headroom but might not sail quite as well as a well tuned folkboat with her bilge keels. (Mind you tell that to 'seven isles' the bilge keel Hunter 27 in Bernie's class at Burnham Week which seems to point as well as any other boat sailing in the class.)

Glad to see you out and about a lot - have to get you over to Brightlingsea next season!
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We had just about decided that width was the answer. I love Maestro, but she's pretty cramped with 4 of us on board. Still, the kids will leave home and buy their own boats some day!

Brightlingsea - yes please! And Pyefleet, and maybe even Walton on the Naze! This season has come to an un natural and premature end, as the engine on Maestro started making an alarming noise yesterday, and then I knackered the outboard for the tender, and we can't afford to fix them at the moment! Lots of work to do over the winter, then looking forward to next summer...
 
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