[James S]

Originally Posted by boden36

Interested in your comments. I am about to change our 36 ft cutter from centre to aft cockpit (Steel boat so not too involved). I find the aft cabin too difficult to access, and the centre cockpit catches all the spray. In addition, the aft cab is full width, and often if she catches a wave on the weather deck, that water gets dammed up by the cabin and spills into the cockpit. I built the cabin for our daughter when she was a little girl, and she's 28 now.
Does anyone know of any good sites dealing with the basics of cockpit design? Regards, Richard.

I changed an aft helm to a center cockpit.

Steve & Linda Dashues book has some basic cockpit design info....can't remember the name off hand....Cruisers Encyclopedia or something like that....lots of good stuff and worth the cost.