DE 32 head configuration General Forum Forums

DE38's have a companionway between the salon and the v-berth with a door to port that enters the head. their is a door into the v-birth ahead of you and then as you walk into the vberth another door on port in the vberth that goes to the head. So there are two doors on the head one to the companionway between the salon and the vberth and one into the vberth.. 

DE32 im not totally sure of..

DE32 Gracie Emmet looks to be layed out the same as our DE38. If you click on the link you can see the images.. hmm let me see if I can post it here. If you look at the two images you can see by the angle you are looking at the head from that there has to be two doors that you are looking through.. the one taken from the vberth even shows the edge of the door that opens into the vberth.

here is a different DE32 and you can see the edge of a door to the right low down that would go to the vberth

here is a line drawing of DE32 Seabird that shows two doors on the head and how they open

I hope this helps.. since I have never actually been on a DE32 I don't have much more information than that.. I'm sure that some of our DE32 owners will be along soon to set the record straight.

hmm..

on looking at the picture you posted in more detail I believe your boat has been modified. If you will compare the layout with the line drawing you will see that the v-berth has been permanently filled in with there is a gap that the door would open into. I would say that it is a owner modification as I can see the lines of the vertically run wood planks? on the face of the v-berth where they meet the floor. The door and drawers there are also non standard I believe. This gives you a bigger bed I believe at the loss of some floor space maybe.

I'm not sure what I would advise.. You could certainly put the wall back and a door in.. but to do it right with matching teak will be very expensive. Even if with cheaper materials it would be a lot of work. Maybe a track on the floor following the old wall profile and another on the overhead with a heavy canvas wall that accordions out of the way along the track when you want it open and pulls taunt and locks in place when you want it closed off. almost best of both worlds? The existing half door just looks silly from a functional perspective much less aesthetics.

Composting head is the way to go! We love ours.

I would definitely expect a bit of a discount on price the way that has been modified if you wanted it.. wouldn't be a deal breaker to me but you will have to put some money and time into it to take it back to stock or do something else that gives you some privacy. I definitely would never have that arrangement with a standard head because of odors. Maybe with a composting head, but I would still prefer a partition between the rest of the boat and the head.

We have the natures head and it is great.. we have had it of 4 years or so with 18 months of living on the boat with it and would never go back. We removed the old head, all plumbing and the holding tank and regained a lot of space. There are some comprehensive threads on here where I go into a lot of detail about using it and maintaining it.

The Air head brand would be comparable to the natures head in style of usage. I would not use any other brands than those two.. Sunmar is an older company that many have heard of  but their composting toilets are larger and have lots of issues with odors because of the way they deal with feces and urine. The Natures head and air head separate these before they mix and it makes all the difference.