Wow, saw this idea from Rob Adkins in a recent post (copied below) and wanted to start a new topic to discuss & hear from anyone who has this modification done to their Cat27.
My spin would be to maybe make the aft seatback removable so that the starboard quarterberth is more accessible. Now it's like a coffin to sleep in and difficult to crawl into, but if the aft dinette seatback lifted out, or tilted FORWARD then problem solved. Note, my overnight trips are typically with one other dude and sleeping in the 2 huge quarter-berths leaves the dinette table intact and the vberth for gear... less moving gear around. My port side has, (starting from bow) hanging locker, bulkhead, sink, icebox, stove, then super-long 1/4-berth(not "aft-galley" like some of you). SB side is head, bulkhead, dinette, and 1/4 coffin-berth. first post! Carl Seattle,WA Gata Luna '73 Cat-27 #1050, dinette, OB Copied From: RobAdkins welcome to the group matt and congrats on catavinos. i vaguely remember the dinette layout and had a thought regarding your question. consider creating the aft settee of the dinette as a fold down seat back. two cuts made, one along the bottom of the back and one along the starboard wall and attaching brass hinges folding away from the berth. add a barrel latch for the upright fixed position when in use. i don't think the dinette structure is load bearing but make sure of this before cutting. good luck. -rob Darlen'B '84 C27 --- In ic...@yahoogroups. com, "matt.warning" <mwarn...@.. .> wrote: >
