Adding deadlights to a Kelly Peterson 44

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by GILow

Yeah, sorry, that photo should have come with a warning to sensitive viewers. Horrible hey?

Raise floor? No way. See point about Swanson interior and the scar tissue forming on my forehead.

CCTV… see my idea about four lcd screens.

Wait till you see my plans for the cockpit! It is going to be awesome. I plan to live up there. But not in winter in Tasmania, that’s a step too far.

Easy fix - don't spend winter in Tasmania.
If you are there in winter there is nothing to be gained by looking out your windows - it will be grey and bleak - and very, very depressing.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Easy fix - don't spend winter in Tasmania.

If you are there in winter there is nothing to be gained by looking out your windows - it will be grey and bleak - and very, very depressing.

Actually, winter in Tassie was pretty special.

Minus two in the cabin was a bit of a trial tho.

Gotta try the place out in summer next time.

[Bill O]

Originally Posted by GILow

Issue 1 is easily solved. I walk around mostly naked, nobody will look in twice.

Wow, really glad you didn't post a pic about that, my eyes could have been scarred for life!

Besides the peeping Tom end of it, having "stuff" out in plain sight can be a security issue. Living in large cities, if you had anything of value in plain view in your car you were very likely to have your windows smashed to steal that item. To a thief, even a jacket on the floor behind the seat could be potentially concealing something.

The Phifertex inserts in the hull ports allowed you to look out w/o anyone being able to look in.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Bill O

Wow, really glad you didn't post a pic about that, my eyes could have been scarred for life!

Besides the peeping Tom end of it, having "stuff" out in plain sight can be a security issue. Living in large cities, if you had anything of value in plain view in your car you were very likely to have your windows smashed to steal that item. To a thief, even a jacket on the floor behind the seat could be potentially concealing something.

The Phifertex inserts in the hull ports allowed you to look out w/o anyone being able to look in.

After owning boats for twenty years I no longer have anything of value to leave out.

But I do use a very faintly tinted Perspex for my hatches to give some privacy.

[Ambler]

Hey… I know, how about four small LCD screens wired to external cameras…?

That's a great idea, you could place the screens where you reckon the topside ports would go.

[Ambler]

Originally Posted by El Pinguino

Easy fix - don't spend winter in Tasmania.

If you are there in winter there is nothing to be gained by looking out your windows - it will be grey and bleak - and very, very depressing.

C'mon Ping, just because we don't have glaciers carving into the sea here in Tassie doesn't mean its all grey and drab.

[Brewgyver]

We looked at a KP 44, and I remember it being a bit dim. I'm sure the fixed ports would be a great addition.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by GILow

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Anyway, I removed the chart table, along with the interior of the boat.

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Originally Posted by GILow

Yeah, sorry, that photo should have come with a warning to sensitive viewers. Horrible hey?
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Originally Posted by GILow

Issue 1 is easily solved. I walk around mostly naked, nobody will look in twice.

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This thread is turning ugly...
I suppose part of it can be tarted up.
Leaving the deadlights out could be a good start.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Brewgyver

We looked at a KP 44, and I remember it being a bit dim. I'm sure the fixed ports would be a great addition.

Removing all of the dark teak has made it a LOT lighter, in both senses of the word.

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Wotname

This thread is turning ugly...
I suppose part of it can be tarted up.
Leaving the deadlights out could be a good start.

Anchor next to me and take your chances I say.

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by GILow

Anchor next to me and take your chances I say.

You'll be getting all the swinging room you need and then some .

[GILow]

Originally Posted by Wotname

You'll be getting all the swinging room you need and then some [emoji3].

I see what you did there.

[Fore and Aft]

Gilow, I am glad to hear you removed all that dark teak. It looks like you have a big project ahead of you......... Can you get a 1200mm wide sheet of plywood down below?

Cheers

[MJH]

Originally Posted by GILow

Hi all,

I am sitting here on my Swanson 42, greatly enjoying the view from the main settee. Although not pilot-house level, I’ve got a pretty good outlook as the lovely bronze opening portlights on the sides of the boat are only a little below eye level and allow me to see what is going on outside without getting of my backside.

The new boat, a Kelly Peterson 44 has no such luxury. All twelve of the bronze portlights are on the side of the cabin trunk and the only way to see anything other than sky is to perform a chin-up or stand on the settee.

Next to me is a shiny new Sun Odyssey with two lovely deadlights per side, one positioned about midships, aft of the chain plates, about where they’d be great on the KP44.

So, the KP44 is three quarters of an inch of solid fibreglass at that point. Provided I steered clear of the chain plates I figure it should be safe to add some deadlights.

Thoughts? Matt

Seems like you should have thought about that before you bought the boat.

I'm not one who desires to make wholesale changes to an original design. Besides, I don't particularly like these rectangular topsides deadlights I see on the new production boats...it just breaks up the lines of the boat. Then there is the possibility of leaks. And the thought of all the work and expense just because I can't see lying down? No, not me.

But it seems important to you. Maybe you should have bought the Sun Odyssey.

[Jim Cate]

Maybe you should have bought the Sun Odyssey.

Umm... besides some significant differences in design and build philosophy, there is a cataclysmic difference in price between those vessels that might have influenced the decision.

But I agree that the rectangular black patches in the topsides are dog ugly to my eye and add nothing to the already blocky appearance of the boat. Tastes vary!

Jim