I need a seat for my nav station. I have the nav station to starboard that is oriented athartship-nearly useless this way and it does not have the original swing seat. I'd like to be able to work remotely at the nav station while cruising. Am looking at pedestals. but not sure there is floor enough to support one. Has anyone solved this problem short of cutting it out and reorienting fore and aft?
I would think there would be an issue with available room with the fore/aft setup, I maybe wrong as there are some pretty creative folks out there. I would think the swing seat would be an easy thing to replicate though (and cheaper than re-orient the station I would think). Mine seems pretty comfortable, and I do like how the seat swings away and frees up room.
A buddy of mine used a bar stool as the nav seat. It worked well on his 365.
I had a thought of removing the nav table. Then building in a very comfy seat against the hull facing towards the galley. Couple that with a swing over table for a laptop and a side table instead of the wet locker and I would have all my needs met. I'm talking couch potato heaven. Never modeled it out, but I think there would be room. (LOL, Mr Zulu? You up for this dude? Your computer modeling skills seem up for the task)
The Nav tables usefulness is a throw back to an earlier era of paper charts and dividers. Now a days it is just a large junk drawer and a place for my wife to set her stuff(junk?, crap?). And I actually got tossed off of that stool in a seaway a few times. I can see why somebody took it out.
My NAV station also collects junk because of the fact that it's useless as a NAV station. The admiral wants to pay for our Bahamas cruise by working remotely at the NAV station while I spearfish-I want to encourage this with whatever seating works for her!
JP, if you come up with something that works, be sure to show us how. Dana is also working remote and it would help to show her how that might work if we purchase another 365. Best I can come up with is adding a removable or folding desk top to the port side settee, mounting it to the ice box cabinet.
I'm a software engineer, and one who is extremely picky about my work space. Everything from the angle of my knees, the lumbar support, the height of the keyboard, the height of the monitor.
Actually, if anyone has seen any of those pissed off frustrated posts about working I've made, that is usually the aftermath of one of those variables being off for a few hours or more.
I was initially thinking of replacing the stool with a foldable task chair (https://amzn.to/2Yw9Rmu) of some kind, and install it on the swivel.
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Now, that's an involved process. Finding the chair (you'll see the linked one isn't available anymore), figuring out how to mount it, etc. I actually wound up getting a small foldable table, a separate monitor, and I've got my wireless keyboard mouse combo. This has actually worked so well that I've been thinking about using the port settee as my seat, install an articulating monitor mount right where the pilot's berth meets the wall of the head, so it could swing out and be stored back in the pilot's berth. I use pillows to position my mouse, but was thinking about making that side table extendable (like Journey had).
But now...thinking about that nav station area without a nav station...that's an idea. I'll mull it over, and let you all know what I noodle about with.