Sagefemme
Advanced Member
I will look into the Lagune table. The standard table does seem a bit lacking.Three ideas for your improvements list. We did them after a couple of years with our FB Hawk and wish that we had done them right away.
Swap out the standard table for a Lagune table with a rectangular top. Much better performance and flexibility.
Commit to east-west sleeping and leave the bed slider at home. Suddenly the under bed storage is easily accessible because it’s always ready and lifting the bed is soooooo easy because it’s lighter. And making or breaking camp goes much faster.
If you don’t need the guest bed, replace the heavy and awkward dinette bench slabs with light plywood on piano hinges. Access to the big storage bins is now easy. We use folding bleacher seats for padding and back support.
Anyhoo, there’s some ideas. Wisdom suggests that you do some camping to see if any of these make sense for you. Enjoy.
John
As to E-W sleeping, we are already committed as our camper does not have the bed slide out. We are finding the sleeping area plenty roomy; it's hard to imagine who needs the slide out except I guess it makes N-S sleeping possible. Maybe I don't really understand what I'm missing, but east and west seem like perfectly good directions for my head and my feet! One thing that will improve the sleeping is some sort of leveling devices for the wheels and a bubble level. I am more sensitive to out of level-ness than my spouse, so I will likely try to figure out what levelers to get.
As for the guest bed, I'm pretty certain we will never use it. We also have the indoor shower which is very hard to imagine ever using. Not sure if changing to hinged seats would affect showering, probably not. I also wonder if anyone has found a way to compartmentalize the big storage bins. Currently they don't have much in them, but over time, and on longer trips, I can see them become an annoying jumble of stuff that has to be rooted through repeatedly to find anything.
Are you saying you put bleacher seats on top of the cushions?