Galley Seat in Sceptre
 

Saw some old threads about seats in a Sceptre. Here are pics of the factory galley seat in mine. It was an option in 1976 and probably a few other years. It has a propane stove and a small fresh water tank built in. Uses a foot pump for the water - we used that with a small hose to rinse with fresh water on hot days. The sink drains overboard. Attachment 6307

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That's pretty cool! Never seen one before. Looks like something on a SeaFari.

That combo SS sink and stove is pretty slick! Should be more durable than the gel coat on the earlier style sink!

The galley seat was another clever Carl Moesly invention and was standard on some I/O Seafaris; real handy for overnight trips. Got the one below from another CSC member who wanted a pedestal seat. I replaced the original rotted plywood panels with 3/4" PVC board, but am going to have to redo the Formica as it has faded badly since I took these pictures. It originally had a 1 burner propane stove attached to the front panel that nested down into the sink, but it used oddball Freon-style fuel canisters I was unable to find, so I replaced it with a Butane stove that's safer and works well. I rigged up an electric pump on mine with a tee and PVC valves so I can pump water to the sink or a hand held shower head that's handy for either a freshwater rinse after diving or rinsing dishes! Found a portable 6 gallon jug that just fits through the hatch and mounted a push button switch (after taking these pictures) that's at knee height so running the pump is a hands-free operation!

Great utility......great to know that there are some out there for a Sceptre. Thanks for the pictures. Denny-Do you use both the magma grill in the rod holder and the stove on trips?

Oh yes . . . the grill for steaks or fish and the stove for veggies, etc. It's a complete galley!

Very nice!

Mine still looks pretty much like Denny's used do. I love it. Best galley set up I've ever had.

Wow. I would love to get my hands on one of those.

FishStrecher - I should be back at the boat in a couple of weeks - If you want to try to build one I can take dimensions and post some 3D CAD sketches of it. I will also get the mfgr info on the sink/stove unit when I am down there then. If several people are really interested I could probably make a mold of it when I pull it out to do the deck. Is there a CSC warehouse somewhere for that kind of stuff????

Any sketches or CAD would be greatly appreciated! A mold would be even better! But I will take anything, really. Thanks for the offer!

Fish,

There is a photo of a nice galley seat in a 23 Sceptre in the '79 brochure, on 4th page from the end: http://www.classicseacraft.com/broch...ure/index.html

It uses a 2 burner stove that nests down into a huge sink. The only complaint I have about my galley seat is that the sink is a bit small, so if I were going to build one from scratch, I think I'd design the sink to fit around one of these modern compact Coleman propane stoves http://www.coleman.com/product/perfe...0#.Ut6cAvQo4Sg I'd use a fold-down faucet like in Flexpat's sink along with a foot or electric pump. Instead of mounting the stove under the seat panel, you could mount it to a second folding panel like mine that opens forward and rests on the bulkhead. The the underside of the seat would become a handy table.

It looks like they were made just using a chopper gun, as there doesn't appear to be any cloth or roving in mine; original thickness is about 7/32 or about 3 layers of 1708 plus gel coat. I added some strips of 1708 in the radius along all the outer edges at the top where it looked like there might be some pretty good bending loads from the seat if you had a 200 lb guy sitting there seeing several g's of dynamic load from banging through some big seas! I also added some strips of 1708 along the bottom edges to take the shear loads from 9 1/4" bolts in 2"x2" brackets cut from aluminum angle. Haven't seen any cracks in mine after almost 7 years of use, so that laminate thickness appears to be adequate.