Category Archives: Interior Projects

Curtains – Dressing Up the Boat’s Interior

If your boat is your home - full time or for weekend time, you'll want it to reflect your style and provide some comforts of home. There are a variety of styles for curtains to add some warmth to you home afloat. What fits your boat's personality and your lifestyle on the boat?  A fun nautical or tropical print?  A solid darkening curtain just to keep light and heat out?  Do you want a simple snap on cover?  Blinds?  Curtains with tabs that roll up or curtains that slide on a track?  Pleats for a bit more formal style or something softer? And there are those times when you may want to keep others from peeking in.  You may even get a bit of warmth from curtains.  So whether for style or comfort think about what your curtains can say about Read more [...]

How Many Marine Canvas Items Do You Have Aboard?

You can use this checklist for items to maintain or for ideas of things you might want to make for your boat.  What would you add to the list? Topside 1. Jib Sail sacrificial cover 2. Main Sail cover or stack pack 3. Line bags 4. Dinghy cover or chaps 5. Teak ladder cover 6. Lifesling cover replacement 7. Horseshoe buoy cover 8. Cockpit cushion covers and pillows 9. Binnacle and compass covers 10. Winch covers 11. Jerry can covers 12. Hatch covers and screens 13.  Companionway cover 14. Wind scoops 15. House burgee or courtesy flags 16. Bimini or enclosure 17. Awning 18. Fender covers 19. Cockpit organizer 20. Covers for "toys" - paddle boards and kayaks 21. BBQ cover or Read more [...]

Hatch Pillows – Putting the Hatches to Bed and Insulating the Boat

We haven't seen hatch pillows on other boats.  Have you?  No?  Maybe you have shades instead?  Those seemed expensive to me.  A previous version of the pillows was on our boat when we bought her.  We thought they were kinda silly. They had stars on one side. Like looking up to the stars, but we were inside? We have grown to like our hatch pillows so much that we are remaking them to match our new decor.  These pillows are made of foam cut to fit the inside of the hatch area and covered in outdoor fabric (Robert Allen - Gales Point) and Sunbrella. They keep out light at marinas and eliminate a bright full moon at anchor for sleep.  These pillows also provide a bit of insulation with a bit of breath-ability so there isn't too much heat Read more [...]