A major modification below decks

When we bought Maunie there were quite a few urgent jobs to complete below decks. She'd languished untouched for about 3 years and smelt fairly unpleasant to be honest! A couple of leaks from deck fittings and from one of the pilothouse windows had allowed rainwater to seep in so everything was pretty damp - just as well that we didn't love the upholstery!


The main modification before we launched last year was to build in a new navigation table - the previous owner had specified a very comfy settee in the starboard side of the pilothouse but this meant that there wasn't a permanent area for charts. Working with the team at the Berthon yard in Lymington, we designed a stand-up nav table, based on the design in our last boat and we're really pleased with the result.





We've replaced the old 'green screen' radar with a new Raymarine combined colour plotter and radar so we can have the current paper chart on the nav table, the digital chart on the plotter (visible from the cockpit) and the digital instruments mounted at the front of the pilothouse ceiling, relaying information such as boat-speed, position, water depth and windspeed from the main set of displays in the cockpit.