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mike hanyi
02-01-2009, 02:09 AM
I am searching for the proper title of a folding sink cabinet, pullman sink, folding vanity cabinet.....I cant google something which I dont know the title to!!!

Lulworth has 2 of them, I have seen them on various old yachts.

normally a tank for freshwater above, and a tank below for used water, great to have in your cabin so you can brush teeth and shave.

help!

I am also looking for one

mike
P.L.Lenihan
02-01-2009, 07:07 AM
Sweet.......
mike hanyi
02-01-2009, 07:26 AM
Im home with the kids for 3 days....I have tried almost every combination of words without any good hits,

well, I called a friend who plays with 1:1 scale steam trains and he said he has a few of them available, Im going to go look next week at the thingamajig or whatchamacallit sinks.
Peerie Maa
02-01-2009, 07:31 AM
Are you thinking of this, courtesy of Water Craft magazine?
The sink was inspired by those pages of Thomas Foulkes ads which used to appear in the back of Yachting Monthly nearly 50 years ago. They offered a patent folding sink which automatically emptied when closed away. My version is made of 3/8" (9mm) marine plywood, well coated in epoxy resin. The chap who was fortuitously resurfacing our bath was happy, for a small fee, to spray the sink with the same enamel finish. When folded down from its vertical, stowed position, the sink is filled from a container in a similar fashion to the galley sink. Ablutions finished, it's then folded up again which sends the contents via a hose into another container which lives behind the cool bin. Both the filling and receiving' containers are visible for checking levels. Hot water is provided by a third vacuum flask.
http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp164/peerie_maa/Sink.jpg
rbgarr
02-01-2009, 07:58 AM
A 'Murphy' sink, perhaps?

A local boatyard owner was selling his beautiful 39' cutter and we were admiring the porcelain sink with nickle plated fixtures in its folding mahogany cabinet in the fo'c'sle. That's what he called it anyway, but it may have been a play on Murphy (folding) beds and not a true term of art.