The preferred layout

[Baggywrinkle]

A few years ago whilst looking for a yacht inthe UK I went to see a owner fitted out macwester26,they seemed to have gone out of their way to make it difficult to get into the berths in the focsle and impossible to sit comfortably in the saloon,very neatly fitted out with obvious attention to detail but forgot what the accomodation was for.

I remember sailing in the 80s on what was considered at the time to be a very capable family cruiser - my father kept going on about how they had crossed the atlantic. My impression was that the accomodation was somewhere to sit and suffer when it was too cold or wet to go and play sardines in the cockpit. Normally boilled a kettle to keep warm and made tea with milk that was about 15 mins away from turning into cheese. What an adventure!!! ..... not to mention waking up in the morning to condensation dripping off the roof onto your sleeping bag.

It was a proper boat though, had a kindly motion akin to a waterlogged tree-trunk. Them were the days.

 

[ChromeDome]

The sails are missing .....

Well - for doing Friesland in general and the Elfsteden (Elleven-cities) Route (many bridges, max. clearance 2.4m and depth 1.3) in particular, a mobo built for the purpose is the best idea. Hence going there by car and hiring a boat

 

[Boo2]

...Five private bathrooms, and that's only a 44-footer (Nauticat)...

Silly.

Boo2

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Having a pee whilst going upwind into a chop is hilarious, right up to the point where you come off a wave and get covered in piss.

Bottle, on your knees on the cockpit floor. No mess and no risk of injury.

 

[Daydream believer]

What's wrong with a bucket?

Have you tried sitting on a bucket for half an hour whilst reading a newspaper? There are some pleasures in life that one indulges in at home, that one simply does not give up, just because ones is on ones yacht.

 

[zoidberg]

..... not to mention waking up in the morning to condensation dripping off the roof onto your sleeping bag.

You got to go to sleep?

 

[Baggywrinkle]

You got to go to sleep?

... every third night, we had to rotate bunks 'cos there was no space ..... and we didn't have anti-fouling in those days .... had to wait for low tide and lick the hull clean.

 

[Wansworth]

... every third night, we had to rotate bunks 'cos there was no space ..... and we didn't have anti-fouling in those days .... had to wait for low tide and lick the hull clean.

“You’re…..

 

[dansaskip]

Have you tried sitting on a bucket for half an hour whilst reading a newspaper? There are some pleasures in life that one indulges in at home, that one simply does not give up, just because ones is on ones yacht.

To me that is a very strange idea of pleasure. Perhaps if it takes that long there is something wrong with the system? I can think of plenty of other things that are far more pleasurable . Besides the bucket solution was in answer to what if the heads goes wrong?

 

[Frogmogman]

To me that is a very strange idea of pleasure. Perhaps if it takes that long there is something wrong with the system? I can think of plenty of other things that are far more pleasurable . Besides the bucket solution was in answer to what if the heads goes wrong?

A tip I learned from Les Williams when I saw him disappearing behind the Genoa on FCF Challenger, loo roll in hand, is that the pulpit can make a pleasant perch for doing one’s business.

It wouldn’t work so well in a modern boat such as my own, with a plumb bow, cut away pulpit and bowsprit

 

[zoidberg]

A tip I learned from Les Williams when I saw him disappearing behind the Genoa on FCF Challenger, loo roll in hand, is that the pulpit can make a pleasant perch for doing one’s business.

It wouldn’t work so well in a modern boat such as my own, with a plumb bow, cut away pulpit and bowsprit

You could always 'dangle a barrel' off the pushpit, in the style of the Arab traders running down the Indian Ocean Trade Winds.

A French singlehander strapped a plastic toilet seat to the mesh of his trimaran's tramp-netting....

 

[AngusMcDoon]

A French singlehander strapped a plastic toilet seat to the mesh of his trimaran's tramp-netting....

Dragonfly trimarans have a 20cm gap between the rear of the trampoline and the front end of the aft beam. Very handy for what is known as a 'beam dump'.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Dragonfly trimarans have a 20cm gap between the rear of the trampoline and the front end of the aft beam. Very handy for what is known as a 'beam dump'.

Get your arse washed as an added bonus?

 

[ChromeDome]

Get your arse washed as an added bonus?

Nice, a sustainable bidet

 

[Daydream believer]

To me that is a very strange idea of pleasure. Perhaps if it takes that long there is something wrong with the system? I can think of plenty of other things that are far more pleasurable . Besides the bucket solution was in answer to what if the heads goes wrong?

Might be strange to you. I suppose the Iphone generation would not understand. It is not unusual to see some males standing at the urinal, texting with one hand & aiming with the other. How that can be a pleasurable alternative defies logic.
Something that my father would have thought, disgusting.
But sitting on the bog, reading the football ,or racing pages, whilst having a smoke is, in many people's view, a pleasurable way to contemplate the start to the day.

 

[LadyInBed]

Have you tried sitting on a bucket for half an hour whilst reading a newspaper? There are some pleasures in life that one indulges in at home, that one simply does not give up, just because ones is on ones yacht.

I guess that that would be on the poop deck

 

[Fr J Hackett]

Nice, a sustainable bidet

Or colonic irrigation

 

[zoidberg]

TMI, methinks.

 

[newtothis]

Might be strange to you. I suppose the Iphone generation would not understand. It is not unusual to see some males standing at the urinal, texting with one hand & aiming with the other. How that can be a pleasurable alternative defies logic.
Something that my father would have thought, disgusting.
But sitting on the bog, reading the football ,or racing pages, whilst having a smoke is, in many people's view, a pleasurable way to contemplate the start to the day.

I'm impressed that you can get the paper boy to deliver on long-distance voyages.

 

[Fr J Hackett]

TMI, methinks.

Would certainly get rid of the Klingons