The owners of this model all seem to love 'em. We have been aboard several of these and also a Mk1 version with the traditional layout.
We have been tempted several times to pull the trigger on a 38/200 purchase, but the thing that stopped us cold was the mini-nav table, where you face aft, perched on the end of the settee. Not even a back rest.
We both really like the our aft head ("tri cabin") layout on our Olson with the large forward-facing nav desk.
The E-38 trumps us, however, with a separate shower.
So, how do you happy Ericson 38/200 owners cope with the lack of a "functional" desk on your 38's? (Yeah, I know that "navigation" is supposed to be all electronic and only a little screen is needed, anyway. Maybe - on some other boats...)
We use our present nav. table for added food prep area, computing, a place to lay out books, magazines, and catalogs, work on repair projects... and, as the joke goes, sometimes even for... navigating! It has room under the lid for flat chart storage, too. The surface comfortably holds a folded-once chart (1/2).
I will append a layout of our boat, from an old dealer flyer. It shows some dark lines on the nav table denoting the opening lid(s), but the table surface does go out to the end of the curved part of the drawing.
If we had our druthers, we wish the aft part of the E-38 interior had been like our present boat... just bigger!
:nerd:
Thanks,
Loren
We have been tempted several times to pull the trigger on a 38/200 purchase, but the thing that stopped us cold was the mini-nav table, where you face aft, perched on the end of the settee. Not even a back rest.
We both really like the our aft head ("tri cabin") layout on our Olson with the large forward-facing nav desk.
The E-38 trumps us, however, with a separate shower.
So, how do you happy Ericson 38/200 owners cope with the lack of a "functional" desk on your 38's? (Yeah, I know that "navigation" is supposed to be all electronic and only a little screen is needed, anyway. Maybe - on some other boats...)
We use our present nav. table for added food prep area, computing, a place to lay out books, magazines, and catalogs, work on repair projects... and, as the joke goes, sometimes even for... navigating! It has room under the lid for flat chart storage, too. The surface comfortably holds a folded-once chart (1/2).
I will append a layout of our boat, from an old dealer flyer. It shows some dark lines on the nav table denoting the opening lid(s), but the table surface does go out to the end of the curved part of the drawing.
If we had our druthers, we wish the aft part of the E-38 interior had been like our present boat... just bigger!
:nerd:
Thanks,
Loren
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