Galley Seat in Sceptre

[Bushwacker]

Fish,

There is a photo of a nice galley seat in a 23 Sceptre in the '79 brochure, on 4th page from the end: http://www.classicseacraft.com/broch...ure/index.html

It uses a 2 burner stove that nests down into a huge sink. The only complaint I have about my galley seat is that the sink is a bit small, so if I were going to build one from scratch, I think I'd design the sink to fit around one of these modern compact Coleman propane stoves http://www.coleman.com/product/perfe...0#.Ut6cAvQo4Sg I'd use a fold-down faucet like in Flexpat's sink along with a foot or electric pump. Instead of mounting the stove under the seat panel, you could mount it to a second folding panel like mine that opens forward and rests on the bulkhead. The the underside of the seat would become a handy table.

It looks like they were made just using a chopper gun, as there doesn't appear to be any cloth or roving in mine; original thickness is about 7/32 or about 3 layers of 1708 plus gel coat. I added some strips of 1708 in the radius along all the outer edges at the top where it looked like there might be some pretty good bending loads from the seat if you had a 200 lb guy sitting there seeing several g's of dynamic load from banging through some big seas! I also added some strips of 1708 along the bottom edges to take the shear loads from 9 1/4" bolts in 2"x2" brackets cut from aluminum angle. Haven't seen any cracks in mine after almost 7 years of use, so that laminate thickness appears to be adequate.