nb Innisfree

I spent hours sat on a pretend toilet deciding on optimum size of toilet/shower room.

My first attempt at designing a nb layout finished up with a cabin 100' long, and that was trying to be realistic!

For the best I think, you could damage your brain.

One upon a time I was chatting to a diy fitter who had a "fantastic" idea to cut all his bulkheads in one go, "save time" he said, fortunately for him someone pointed out the variations in a hull, the look on his face was classic.

Every hull varies in dimensions, even same design by same builder, one day they might be built by robots and computers, millimetre identical, then they could be mass produced. Not before I die though I think.

It's done because it's quick and easy. Too much vertical thinking.

It could be done economically on a large scale with proper design. But why bother if boats are selling. Who said it had to be in one piece?

That's my point, no imagination! 🤣 You are thinking of conventional boats built to sell at a profit. Everything removable, takes thinking outside of the conventional box, it's not rocket science. Partition wall sits on bearers, floor buts up to it, screwed to a strip of ply between bearers, only downside is only one room can be lifted at once, handy for adjusting ballast for ongoing improvements, similar with wall lining.

Bare shell, nothing fitted, I sourced everything and finished up with a bespoke boat. In some ways it was easier, trying to persuade builders to do things in an unorthodox way would never have worked, there was enough hassle with folk telling me I was doing it all wrong and said it wouldn't work, shaking of heads, for instance some didn't understand why I was going to the trouble of designing the floor and lining to be individually removable in each room, they were genuinely puzzled, it just wasn't done that way. They were wrong so I just ignored them. Looking at the lack of imagination and basic incompetence I can see why folk have probs with their builders. If you want a job doing properly diy is my motto though health probs prevents me doing it now.

Maybe but in our case we finished up with a boat with loads of extras that would have cost much more new and I couldn't possibly find a boat with all the fitout I wanted.

Endless enthusiasm, determination and patience is required IMO