"Sailing Dave" wrote in message rver.com...
Good idea withn the locker door.

Your website says that you can access salt water from the galley sink. How
did you plumb that, or is one of your tanks filled with salt water and, if
so, why?

I put in a 3/4 inch thru-hull in the bottom of the sink locker and have
one of those Whale Galley gusher foot pumps to a spigot near the hand
pump. The foot pump actuator arm is under the bottom companion step.


Did you replace the head?

No, it still has the original head which I rarely use preferring the
cedar bucket method.


Did you replace the settee tank itself?

No, it is GPR and part of the settee structure.


How is your bulkhead fixed to the fiberglass? Is it simply constructed of
marine plywood, or did you glass over the whole thing?

It is marine ply with glossy color-matched formica glued on with rubber cement.
Edges sealed with 5200 against moisture intrusion and rot. Bulkhead glued
in place with 5200 and no mechanical fasteners.

I am planning to do away with the dinette entirely, as I do not really use
it anyway and the lack of floor space under the portside seat is maddening.
I am planning to make a sofa pit out of that side with a conversion kit to
turn the entire space into a bed (for me and wife and the kids up in the
berth) Any experience with this arrangement?

That's how it used to work when the dinette table was lowered onto the
settees. This would be easy to do by just lowering the table into the grooves
in the settees and making some comfy cushions.

Have you covered the glass ceiling and walls with any sort of fabric at all?


Only on what is usually called the ceiling (sides) and I glued carpet there
to minimize sweating as it is not cored in the sides as it is on the overhead.

BTW, you have a fine looking vessel. have you sailed it far? I have done
Duluth to Quebec in two years. I plan a complete tour of the Great Lakes
this summer and a Trans-A the following summer Cleveland to Cleveland,
England.

Yes, we both have fine vessels and they are very seaworthy. I have sailed
mine thousands of miles and have lived aboard for over fifteen years now.
Haven't done a crossing with her yet but may get a wild hair up my arse
one of these days and do so. Coronado 27s are pretty stout.


CN