s/v DENIZE II

Interior Furniture

As long term, live aboard cruisers, our requirements for what is not only our passport to foreign lands, but also our only real home are of course a lot different than those of the average customer/owner of these boats. We need fewer bunks and more storage. We need the  storage areas the boat came with to be easier to access. From small things like concentrating the cutlery drawer to take all of our cooking and food preparation implements to larger projects  like changing the port side double cabin into a storage area for food, bosuns supplies, bicycles, winter clothes, ski gear, wet weather gear, and dog bed, all these ongoing projects are slowly giving us a boat more suited to our lives. Some of these changes shown with little more than a few captioned photos will be self explanatory. Other projects may warrant a little more detail and explanation. 

Forward Cabin

The following modifications were made to the forward cabin:

• Removed forward tank (see the page detailing Integral Tanks)

• Built storage drawers to take light but bulky items under the bunk and increased the length of the bunk

• Added a sound system with built in speaker boxes

• Added storage nooks to the hull liner partitions on the bunk sides

• Converted the forward bulkhead into a proper collision bulkhead

• Added a composite girder to the cabin top to take the baby stay chain plate (see section on Rig Modifications)

• Added new battery boxes to move the weight of the bow thruster batteries further aft.

SaLoon

The following upgrades were completed over a period of years:

• Built a bookcase next to the mast compression post

• Reupholstered the salon cushions

• Added a tools organizer under the navigation table

• Converted the top-access storage hatches to drawers

• Added storage nooks to the hull liner partitions on the bunk sides

Galley

Many modifications were made to the galley. Some of these are:

• adding an aluminium dish-drying area under the companionway stairs

• adding detergent dispenser, filtered water and salt water faucets near the sink

• upgrading the galley stove

• remodeling the cupboards and drawers for greater storage

• adding a microwave oven

• adding multiple 110 and 220 Volt power outlets

• adding multiple spice racks

• increasing insulation for both refrigerators

Port AFT Cabin

We needed more storage space, not a second guest-cabin. So we converted the port aft cabin to a storage area for food, bosuns supplies, bicycles, winter clothes, ski gear, wet-weather gear. The port aft-cabin is now our sailor dog Ada’s cabin.