Matt O'Toole wrote in
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In many smaller sailboats, the V-berth is practically unusable anyway, so
why not just make it into a head/lazarette compartment?

Tell you what, Matt. Take any boat under 30' out to sea under sail. Take
a pan about the size of a toilet bowl into the V-berth with 4" of water in
the bottom of it and see if you can hold it without getting wet.

Question answers itself....

Anyways, the V-berth is never "practically unusable", in port or at sea.
After you've cleaned up the mess from the pan experiment, let some sweet
young thing take you up in the V-berth for a couple of hours of R&R....then
come back aft and tell us how "practically unusable" it was....with all
that vertical motion...

AND WIPE THAT SMILE OFF YOUR FACE!

V-berths are the most wonderful places on the boat....in the right
circumstances, of course....(c;

Larry
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