Larry W4CSC wrote:

Rosalie B. wrote in
:

On our boat, we have a hatch that is right over the V-berth and if we
leave it open at night and it rains, it rains on your face and alerts
you to get up and close the hatches. Also I can exit the V-berth
through this hatch to look at the sunrise without traipsing through
the main cabin or waking Bob up.

Bob would be sleeping next to me - the people who would be in the main
cabin would be the charter captains or guests making coffee or
something.

It doesn't rain in Lionheart's V-berth or head hatches because we always
put the PortaBote over both to make a little shelter for them. Works
great

We have the staysail boom over the cabin, and there's not enough space
between that stay and the windlass for the PB to fit.

I think having the hatch open over your face is an advantage, and not
a disadvantage. I sleep better if I know I don't have to keep waking
up to see if it is raining. It's bad enough that I have to keep
waking up to check on the anchor and anchor light. .

I don't quite understand it, but Bob wakes often when I'm on watch and
we are underway, but once we anchor, I'm the one that wakes up to
check on things most of the time.

What's Bob doing sleeping in the main cabin, anyways?.....(c;

Bob doesn't sleep in the main cabin except when we are underway. He
can't sleep in the aft cabin because there's too much space there and
he rolls around when I tack - also the radios are back there. So he
takes his pillow and blanket and puts the lee cloths up and sleeps
much better in the main cabin. (I can sleep through the radios, and
if it is too rolly, I sleep athwart which he's too tall to do)

The reason I can't sleep head-first in a V-berth is my arms flail around in
my sleep too much. It's bad enough for one side to be against the hull.

I tend to sleep with my hands in my armpits to keep them warm.

grandma Rosalie