The new boat

[Greenheart]

Might there be a benefit in creating a tough, wide, layered plastic bucket, with each 2-inch-high layer (from the top down) being about an inch narrower in diameter than the one above, such that each layer can be sealed by a robust but slightly elastic lid, which thereby becomes the new bottom of the part-used bucket...

...such that we would experience the laudable if laughable upgrade from "bucket-and-chuck-it", to "bucket-and-store-it", until such time as, on arrival at a responsible disposal point, somebody - either the lowliest, or the best-paid member of your crew, can be persuaded to empty the layers and get busy with the bleach?

N.B. if anyone with a 3D-printer wants to try making it, for heaven's sake make the points where the layers narrow, thick and strong. Otherwise it is certain that on the last day of a well-fed cruise, the whole thing will compress catastrophically under the skipper's weight like a concertina from hell.
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[ProDave]

Don't try and re invent the porta potti / bucket and chucket. The standard free standing caravan porta potti does it's job well and without smells, The holding tank is sealed and emptying it really is not a bad job, I have had one variant or another for 40 years in caravans.

My first boat had one. the ONLY modification was to add a strap to hold it in it's compartment after one day it rolled out when a gust heeled us over somewhat. But that proved it's contents did not escape.

The cassette versions fitted to modern caravans rely on an external door to withdraw the holding tank from outside the 'van. I can't see that working on a boat!!!!

Don't be in too much of a hurry to alter the internal layout until you have tried it in it's original form. If you decide to sell later a much modified boat may be harder to sell than one that largely keeps to the original layout.

 

[Bouba]

Sometime next week we will start filling the car with all the unwanted stuff in the boat .Ithas a sink combined with a stove that slides under the cockpit which looks awkward and takes up space .I will photograph the interior for the record but I may rebuild the galley area.Washingup can be done in a bucket without complications of a water pump and piping.Measuring up a porta pottie available locally to see if it will fit as show in various photos of other Dufour 24s

Anything you remove....Poignard can sell for you....you could make a fortune....you should see how much he made from an old chisel

 

[Wansworth]

Anything you remove....Poignard can sell for you....you could make a fortune....you should see how much he made from an old chisel

I will bear that in mind

 

[mjcoon]

Might there be a benefit in creating a tough, wide, layered plastic bucket, with each 2-inch-high layer (from the top down) being about an inch narrower in diameter than the one above, such that each layer can be sealed by a robust but slightly elastic lid, which thereby becomes the new bottom of the part-used bucket...

...such that we would experience the laudable if laughable upgrade from "bucket-and-chuck-it", to "bucket-and-store-it", until such time as, on arrival at a responsible disposal point, somebody - either the lowliest, or the best-paid member of your crew, can be persuaded to empty the layers and get busy with the bleach?

N.B. if anyone with a 3D-printer wants to try making it, for heaven's sake make the points where the layers narrow, thick and strong. Otherwise it is certain that on the last day of a well-fed cruise, the whole thing will compress catastrophically under the skipper's weight like a concertina from hell.
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George Melly's autobiography was called "Rum, Bum and Concertina" (Rum, Bum and Concertina)

 

[LittleSister]

Don't be in too much of a hurry to alter the internal layout until you have tried it in it's original form. If you decide to sell later a much modified boat may be harder to sell than one that largely keeps to the original layout.

I agree. Try what is there for a while, then you'll know what you want and what you don't want in a new arrangement (or might even come to see that the arrangement already in the boat is as good a compromise as any of the potential others).

You won't yet appreciate any advantages it might have.

There are likely various modifications, upgrades or fettling you'll need or want to do. They might turn out to be more pressing once you start using the boat, so perhaps don't saddle yourself with the sink & cooker at the top of your list before you start.

 

[ProDave]

We love having the fixed sink and cooker, it would be a real backwards step to revert to a free standing bowl for washing up.

 

[Chiara’s slave]

We love having the fixed sink and cooker, it would be a real backwards step to revert to a free standing bowl for washing up.

We usually wash up in a folding bowl in the cockpit if moored. The sink at sea of course

 

[Wansworth]

Pictures of the interior of the Dufour 24 …..

 

[Greenheart]

I only have eyes for those clear skies. Tell that squatter to get his shoes off your sofa.

 

[Mister E]

Good to see that you have taken up your rightful place.
Now we know why you bought it, so that you don't have to fight the cats.

 

[Wansworth]

Outboard installation

Good to see that you have taken up your rightful place.
Now we know why you bought it, so that you don't have to fight the cats.

 

[Greenheart]

The sliding outboard mount looks clever - if it lifts easily. I'm trying to work out how it's an improvement over tilting up...is it just to save space in the marina?

Give us a picture showing what lies beneath that floor.

 

[Wansworth]

The sliding outboard mount looks clever - if it lifts easily. I'm trying to work out how it's an improvement over tilting up...is it just to save space in the marina?

Give us a picture showing what lies beneath that floor.

 

[Wansworth]

A very thin bilge

 

[Greenheart]

Go on, show us the worst. Rust stains, rat skeletons, aged newspapers declaring "El Caudillo ha Muerto".

 

[LittleSister]

A bit of carpet for the floor will make it nicer (and is surprisingly practical, in my experience).

 

[ProDave]

The one thing I see missing is a heads compartment for the porta potti to reside in. When choosing our (slightly smaller) boat, having a proper heads compartment was one of the must have items.