I am kind of with Richard on this, pulling into a motel, flush toilets, air conditioning and bed that you can easily get in and out off.

Randy Sommerfeld

M17, No Worries

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From: Richard Guy
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 12:21 PM
To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats
Cc: bkurlancheek
Subject: Re: M_Boats: Sleeping Arrangements on the M15

This is great advice. We usually just pull into the slip and get a hotel room. I guess we’ve been doing it wrong. Ha.

Sent from my iPhone - please excuse any typos and the brevity of my response.

> On Apr 3, 2020, at 11:05 AM, casioqv@usermail.com wrote:

>

Great idea discarding the cushions! My 40 year old cushions are pretty soft, I'd imagine a closed cell foam camping mat could be more comfortable, and much much thinner.

I added some 'guide bolts' that allow me to set the upper companionway hatch board across the open standing area inside the companionway. This was mostly to keep my 2 y/o son from falling down in there, but also works to make a larger sleeping area.

Sincerely,

Tyler

'81 M15 #157 S/V Defiant

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From: "bkurlancheek" <bkurlancheek@gmail.com>

To: "For and about Montgomery Sailboats" <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com>

Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:57:44 AM

Subject: M_Boats: Sleeping Arrangements on the M15

Hello All,

Given the state of things, have thought of doing some

extended cruising in my M15.  One of my concerns is

the sleeping arrangements in the cabin.  After a few 5 day

cruises in the Monty, I've decided, there just has to be a better

way, than what I've been doing.  First, I discarded all the cushions.

They reduce sitting headroom height!  Every inch counts in the Monty 15

cabin.  Mainly, I've been sleeping head at bow, on the port side.  I sleep

in a sleeping bag, on top of a couple of body-length 22"-wide camping

cushion

pads.   The bed is soft enough - that's not the problem.  It's getting into

the

sleeping bag that's an exercise in calistenics, and getting out.

Furthermore,

there's all that room, to starboard.  I liked to be wedged, when sleeping

in a boat.

I'm not sure how to assure that on the Monty, other than putting sacks of

spare

blankets between me and the starboard hull.  I'm not much satisifed with

that solution

though.  I've considered making some kind of wooden border, but that might

be unwieldy.

One other thing I do is stuff sacks of more gear into the bow triangle, so

as to give me

something behind the two pillows I use.  Otherwise, the pillows just

migrate into that wedge,

while failing to take me with them.

I'd be curious to know how others situate themselves when sleeping at

anchor on their M15s.

Thanks in advance,

- Brad