LEE CLOTH PROJECT

Safety First!

Often on longer passages, we will have one crew down below trying to get a couple hours of sleep while the other is on watch. The V-Berth is great at anchor but a little bouncy and hard to get in and out of on passage. Our quarter berth is really more of a closet at this point, so we needed to make a lee cloth to hold a person in one of the salon berths. These are relatively narrow and you cant be rolling out onto the floor everytime the boat rolls!

We dug out the trusty SailRite sewing machine again and Celia set to work. We used a breathable pfiefer-tex fabric that would be sturdy but soft-ish. This simple piece of fabric will keep us safely sleeping and secure in the salon berth. This way you are also easily able to react if something is amiss topsides. We have broken down and purchased the somewhat expensive tools needed for punching holes, making snaps and grommets, etc.

For attachments on this project, we put six conventional snaps under the cushion (photos to be added) to the bottom edge in place. We used the existing hand rails on one end with a simple strap, and through-bolted a little piece of hardware into the nav table for a clip to secure the other end.  Once we had all the equipment and hardware together, this project was finished in a day!

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