Thanks Andrea - in such a small and thin space it's hard to be different. But with good customers and a knowledge of design I hope we've managed to make our electric narrowboats seem a more spacious inside.
Great weekender/holiday boat, but I'd never want a liveaboard where the beds have to be 'constructed' every single time before use and packed up every morning. I believe that's why so few liveaboard boats have sofa beds for the main beds even though many are incredibly comfortable. Boat life is full of surprises, and if you've had to deal with some problem late into the night, being able to simply go to bed after, rather than knowing you still have to set it all up, makes a huge difference to morale.
Hi there - this is a holiday boat true. But I live on Shine during the week and every morning I put the beds up. It's easier to do that than make it. I'm an old merchant navy man and have a habbit of putting things away. Cheers and thanks for your comments, Tim
Hi@@mothership_marine and thanks for the reply. The fixed bed convenience versus the extra space or 'walk-ability' of put-away beds is always as much of a divisive issue in boating as it is in camper vans and motorhomes isn't it? It's one of the areas where I wish the boat design world were as creative as the designers of campers and caravans. I mean, I can imagine that a drop-down bed on an electric narrowboat would be as amazing and revolutionary as it has been for campervans, where the whole bed can raise up, fully made, to the ceiling, freeing up all the space below for other purposes. I've even wondered if sunken beds might be feasible, with a kind of gangplank/bridge or folding floor to give back easy walkthrough, etc. I even wonder about 'pop-up' tops, just like on campervans, might be something that should be examined for feasibility. Getting multi-purpose use from a space is just so important when space is so limited.
