Port salon berth

[Ryan Doyle]

Hi All,

I am curious if anyone is able to convert their port settee to a double berth. We have the u-shaped port settee (what I think is called the C layout… one companionway and two heads).

I’m still very new to this boat and it seems logical that you should be able to convert it to a double by removing the dining table and adding a cushion in the center. Am I missing something or is this not supposed to be a double berth?

Thanks very much in advance for any info.

Ryan

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[Tor]

Ryan,

 

I have a different layout, but yours is common in sailboats. Your table is almost certainly designed to drop down. Some of the vertical cushions are just as likely sized to fill that area, forming a full bed. If there’s room below the floorboards, the table’s support pipe probably drops down. If not, then there will be a short pipe laying around to replace the long one when converting to a bed, or else you just dispense with the pipe and the tabletop sets on rims.

 

Ryan, if you do eventually take that boat cruising, you’ll find that wifi can sometimes be scarce, precious, expensive, and very slow. To download a couple of 1MB photos takes a long time and can be frustrating when the same photos, resized in advance by the  sender to 60kb, would have served the same purpose. We all look forward to seeing your progress with your new boat, but it would be a kindness if you (and all of us!) would please resize photos before you share them in emails. If you don’t know how, ask any kid to show you. 😉

 

Tor

 

 

 

[Ryan Doyle]

Hi Tor,

Thank you for your response.  My apologies for not compressing the photos.  I sent them from a phone so it didn’t occur to me that they were large.  I will pay attention to file size here in the future.

Yes, I tried the standard sailboat tactic of “remove the table, drop in a back cushion and board” with any cushion that seemed like a possible fit.  Despite the fact that I can remove the table easily, the cushions are just not the right size and there is no way I see to secure the table top or another board for support.  So, despite the fact that it really looks like you should be able to do this, Im still stumped.

Anyhow, thanks for getting back to me.  I did enjoy your recent article in Cruising world by the way, and best of luck with selling Silverheels, she’s a beautiful boat and it sounds like you guys had an awesome run.

Ryan

[Tor]

I guess you’ll have to wait for other owners with the same layout as yours to chime in. It’s hard to imagine that Pearson didn’t make that table convertible, that being such a common arrangement in boats since forever. Maybe there was a short pipe that has been lost over the years. Of course, you could install a rim for the table to rest on, too, but might need something extra to prevent it from leveraging up when someone sits on the inboard edge. As for the cushions, it sounds like you may have to re-cut some of them to double as bed fillers. Strange, though, that all that wasn’t done by Pearson.

 

Good luck. Have fun.

 

 

 

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