Projects: Enlarging the Quarter Berth

The plan all along has been to do this project, as this is our son's bunk. What was here before, was an aft facing navigation station. The "desk" piece is a teak faced piece of plywood that fits on two "runners" on each side. We had long sense removed this, and then J. roughly boxed in the area between the seat and the "shelf"/water tank. By also raising the seat, this created a small bunk. But even as J. did it, he knew this was a temporary fix - our son was growing!

So, as we were house sitting over Christmas break, J. set to work removing bulkhead (across the boat) and adding one more (length of boat) to create a bunk for E, our son. J. hadn't realized how tight it was until E. climbed in and said, "I can stretch out now, and don't have to sleep cramped up!" Why did he never mention this before? We don't know. We would have then made this a priority. Oh, well. At least it's done now. He even has cushions!

Just after we got the boat, with the table top removed.

 For some reason J. didn't take any pictures of tearing out the bulkhead. Moving the battery selector switch (the black round thing on the bottom right) was also a part of this project. Also, in the mid-ground to the left is the outlet for one of the bilge pumps - just above water level. At the next haul out J. wants to patch this hole, and move the through hull (outlet) to a better location. In the meantime, as you can see toward the end, we've got it hooked up. The green hose is from the cockpit foot-well, and drains overboard behind the engine (to the right).

This last picture, show him all moved in (including a bag of magazines and a backpack of legos!) He's got just over 7 feet of length now! Big improvement!