Captain's Bed

[Sir Percy]

I'm thinking of making a captain's bed to go in my boat (possibly by way of repurposing a chest of drawers).

 

Any advice, or experience to pass on?

 

Ta!

[Bod]

Check mattress and sheet sizes first, then would these sizes fit in the space intended. 

The chest of drawers is the front support, not the size determiner. 

 

Bod

[beerbeerbeerbeerbeer]

Sounds great

I have no advice 

but let us know how you get on

 

was it Billy Connolly who was kept in a draw? Didn’t he have a stand up routine about life was so poor bla bla bla?

[Sir Percy]

10 minutes ago, Bod said:

Check mattress and sheet sizes first, then would these sizes fit in the space intended. 

The chest of drawers is the front support, not the size determiner. 

 

Bod

Approx. dims are 90cm wide, 140cm tall, 60cm deep. There's a top cabinet section 40cm top-to-bottom, and four drawers 25cm t-t-b. So I reckon that if I section it up correctly I can have fit them under a standard 180cm long mattress 90cm above floor level - there'd be two drawers and the cabinet to one side and two drawers and an empty space that I could do something with on the other.

 

I was toying with the idea of constructing the bed frame in 'loft-bed' style, so the sections could move in and out on sliders/castors (with some locking ofc!).

 

The whole assembly could go in the foremost part of the forecabin.

23 minutes ago, Goliath said:

was it Billy Connolly who was kept in a draw? [as a baby?] Didn’t he have a stand up routine about life was so poor bla bla bla?

That rings a distant bell...