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piseas
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Initially Posted - 11/28/2006 :  13:56:31  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
I just purchased a 2003 C250 WK. The manual says you can remove the (HUGE)dinette table and stow but it doesnt say how to remove it. Ok, what is the trick?
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Turk
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Response Posted - 11/28/2006 :  17:15:36  Show Profile  Visit Turk's Homepage
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by piseas</i>
<br />I just purchased a 2003 C250 WK. The manual says you can remove the (HUGE)dinette table and stow but it doesnt say how to remove it. Ok, what is the trick?

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Congratulations! The table lifts off the aluminum tube. The tube just pulls straight up out of the floor. Stow both in the front bow compartment under the boards that support the bow cushions. Or better yet, store it in your basement and make a table half the size.
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piseas
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Response Posted - 11/28/2006 :  17:58:38  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Turk, I assumed it was easy but didnt want to break my my toy! Thanks so much. I have seen what others have done to that table and cutting the size in half is a wonderful idea.
See you out in the high seas....
Steve
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Arlyn Stewart
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Response Posted - 11/28/2006 :  18:10:14  Show Profile  Visit Arlyn Stewart's Homepage
Turk has it right... over the years there have been dozens of offerings of how to attack the table problem as numerous owners find it too big.

And... storing it in the lip of the v-berth locker makes access to the locker very difficult...so I second Turk and suggest taking it off the boat.

A search of the archives should reveal a good many cabin tables to give some ideas.

[url="http://stewartfam.net/arlyn/cabintable.html"]My personal effort[/url] is a leafed table that folds over on top so as to allow fiddles on the table top when folded.
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Tom Potter
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Response Posted - 11/28/2006 :  19:17:32  Show Profile
Arlyn, your table looks outstanding! I really like your "diddy tray and drawer".
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 11/29/2006 :  14:11:08  Show Profile
Did the tables change sizes at some point? My 2000WK table doesn't seem too big to me.
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piseas
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Response Posted - 11/29/2006 :  14:11:46  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
I 2nd that! Have Catalina contacted you about adopting your table? Better put a patent on it!! Theirs has to go.
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 11/29/2006 :  20:36:05  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
At this years strictly boat show, the designer said that they may be incorporating a table similar to that found in the C309 (very nicely finished tables there If they do, I would expect it to be sometime in 07. The standard table sucks! heavy, awkward, too big, has a laminate surface, and storing it in the bow makes the storage there useless.
Still working on my new design.

Paul
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AADIVER
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Response Posted - 11/30/2006 :  01:14:26  Show Profile  Visit AADIVER's Homepage
Check out my table mod pics in Tech Tips, C250, last entry:

Easy Cabin Table Project
by Frank Farmer. March 2006.


Material:
2' X 3' piece of 3/4" marine ply,
10' of narrow oak strips,
2 coats of Man O' War Spar Varnish.

Cut wood per pic, attach oak fiddles with ss screws, apply varnish.
Stow the factory table in its slot under the V berth cushions.
The white box attached under the front of the table is a 3 drawer plastic container for silverware, etc.

Total cost of the table, under $40.00













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piseas
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Response Posted - 11/30/2006 :  14:49:18  Show Profile  Visit piseas's Homepage
Frank, you're the (sea)man!
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 11/30/2006 :  18:13:21  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
The large table is more for chart plotting than eating if you asked me. But hardly anybody does that kind of stuff anymore anyway.
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