Am I the only one that never uses the cockpit table?

Stee6043

Stee6043

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1997 Sundancer 400
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I really enjoy working with wood. I see these super slick projects to build nice, custom cockpit tables. I really want to do it...but I can't.

I have never left my cockpit table in place. If I install it for a special occasion it comes down immediately after. With three kids aboard it makes movement in the cockpit unpleasant, especially when at anchor for a swim.

Am I the only guy whose cockpit table never sees the light of day?
 
Stee6043 said:
I really enjoy working with wood. I see these super slick projects to build nice, custom cockpit tables. I really want to do it...but I can't.

I have never left my cockpit table in place. If I install it for a special occasion it comes down immediately after. With three kids aboard it makes movement in the cockpit unpleasant, especially when at anchor for a swim.

Am I the only guy whose cockpit table never sees the light of day?
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I leave the small cocktail table in place in the cockpit and then have another smaller folding table that we bring out. I find the full size cockpit table to be too big.
 
I leave the big FG table stowed unless we have dinner out there and have the corian table from the mid-cabin in the cockpit 24/7.
 
I think it depends greatly on the layout. I would often leave the table installed on my AJ, but it was a small round one and there was lots of space. My mooring mate never installs theirs.
 
Sometimes I need the big table for "breakfast."

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On our 340da we only put it up for dinner or drinks now and then but mostly had it stowed. It made it harder to get around the U-shaped seating while underway.
We have a large cockpit on the 520DB so now it stays out all the time. It is on a weighted base that we can move it around the cockpit depending on what we are doing at the time and we like that a lot.
 
It never fails...I learn something from these posts. I had no idea the mid-cabin table would fit outside in the cockpit. I'm going to have to try this. I wonder if it's small enough to not annoy the living crap out of me. Good stuff.

@RollerCoastr .....that is a great pic. Dock neighbors like you can be dangerous. Judging by the angle of the sun...I'd say that's a solid 9AM kickoff! ha.
 
Nice breakfast!

Luckily we have a table on the helm deck and with a galley-up layout so don't set up the cockpit table very often.
 
Odd, I never stow mine since it gets used constantly, either at the dock, at anchor or at cocktail cruise speed.
 
I use mine at anchor and it is stowed the rest of the time. If we have a lot of people on board, I do agree it gets in the way. I like the idea of a smaller one for normal usage. I think I may order or maybe build a smaller round one that can be stowed easily.
 
We have a pretty big cockpit but no dedicated cockpit table. I do have a folding table that we set up once in a blue moon, but most of the time it's folded and in the corner.
 
I made a small round table we leave up. No corner for the little guy to smash his head on and frees up quite a bit of space. The FG table in our 290 makes the back seating like a booth, which I hate.
 
stock table in my 310 weighs a ton PIA to store so I made this cherry one for my boat maple and rosewood one for a friend
 

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we now have the privilege to have a big cockpit were the table isn’t in the way

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My father left and mother in the middle visiting for dinner

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Really can’t miss that table....
 
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