[Rhodes22-list] Port Settee plus a political rider from the port

[stan]

If you are dining, the tallest sits on the stern end table seat, where, even 
with the top down, a basketball layer has comfortable head room.  If you are 
reading with the dinette bunk used as a single bed, one of the backrest 
cushions, diagonally placed against the stern cabin wall makes a comfortable 
chaise lounge style seat with lighting coming over your shoulder.  If you do 
sit against the port wall for non eating so want the comfort of leaning 
back, three small storage compartments attached to the underside of the port 
deck and set back from the port cabin trunk about 3 inches, will allow the 
backrest cushions to sit flush with the cabin trunk wall for comfortable 
seating without taking away from the size of the double bunk when the 
backrest cushions are taken down to make up the double dinette bed.

As far as the political rider legally attached to the subject notice, I 
notice that the leader in the flip flop race has done it again - aiming his 
flip flop at our men and women in uniform:

True to his hypocritical oath, he pledged his support for the law banning 
assault weapons yet, as weak as this law was, he has now changed his mind 
and, in spite of the statistics that 20% of our men and women in uniform, 
who get shot with these type weapons, he flip flopped and the law is 
removed.  To use Steve's description, anyone voting for this flip flopper 
should be ashamed on behalf of all those of our armed forces who are 
protecting us from the enemy right here in the god ole US of A.  Amen.

Wake up America.  This man represents the shorter term interests of a 
wealthy minority of us. He simply has no interest - I will be kinder - no 
understanding of the long term health of your future.
This is the only leader I know of who banned the press from Dover Air Force 
base to welcome home our dead, to do everything he can to stop our right 
from knowing what was discussed with Enron before the whistle blowing, to 
bitterly oppose the 9/11 commission and then to flip flop and praise it for 
votes but to only agree to face it as our leader if he would be allowed to 
sit on his leader's lap during the questioning.  - as Rummy would say, don't 
get me started or I will begin confusing the issues with a litany of facts.

stan/gbi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Alm" <salm at mn.rr.com>
To: "Rhodes" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Port Settee


> Todd,
>
> It's not your neck, the port settee is like you say.  I usually find 
> myself
> grabbing for an extra cushion to prop myself up to clear that overhang. 
> And
> please, no jokes about propping myself up with a hangover.  8-)
>
> As for rebuilding, I wouldn't.  First, shorter people don't have a problem
> with it. So, can you just be a little shorter?  The little bit of storage
> you might gain there is not worth the effort. Also, anything you build out
> will bite into the roominess of the sleeping quarters there.
>
> Slim
>
> On 9/14/04 9:14 PM, "Todd Tavares" <sprocket80 at mail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  Rhodies,
>>
>>       I do not know if I am the first to have a problem with the design
>>  of the port settee/berth.  It may only seem like a problem because my
>>  neck can no longer flex comfortably in all directions.  With backer
>>  cushions (the filler cushions) in place, their tops rest against the
>>  sides of the hull, and under the overhang created by the side deck.
>>  If leaning back to rest against the cushions, my head is higher than
>>  where the portlights are and i must bend my head forward.  This is not
>>  a comfortable position for me. Are newer boats still configured this
>>  way, or has this been changed?  Has anyone else had this problem?
>>
>>       I have been toying with the idea of designing a vertical seat
>>  back with a little bit storage space that would bring the cushions
>>  slightly proud of the wall.  I do not know how much time I will be
>>  spending sitting in the cabin or if it will be worth the
>>  effort......but next Spring I will be doing glass/woodwork in the
>>  cabin anyway.  Anyone have ideas or comments?
>>
>>  Todd
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