"It's Alive!" (the thread, that is...)
I was looking at what threads others are reading and noticed this one.
Interesting, because we have been looking at the various iterations of the 38 for the last couple years.
As I now pretend to understand it, all the E-38 hulls were from the same mold.
The original interior had a set of doors/privacy enclosures for the port side aft berth and nav table area. Head and separate shower forward on port side. Dining table to port with a small "game table" to starboard that would drop down to make up a settee on that side. Also was a solid-fuel stove on starb. at front of the cabin.
The
model 381 had the same "floor plan" but was open aft with no bulkhead or door around the after berth area. It also has a larger locker where the former wood stove was mounted. To me, the 381 interior is just like a large version of the E-35-3 interior in appearance and function. Except for the head/shower being forward, I love that layout.
The
E-38-200 series had a new interior layout, with head aft on starb. and a larger berth in a private aft cabin to port. The galley was pushed forward and the table surrounded the base of the mast. The nav. table was shrunk to a small table with a perch for sitting on the end of the starb. settee and facing aft.
This last layout (-200) has become almost a standard for modern sailboats. I also like it a lot, except for the short shrift it gave the nav table.
Anyhow, that's kind of how it looks to me.
I realize that PSC built a run of these and called it the PSC/E-380, but AFAIK they made no inside changes to the E-38-200. They did change the stern of the deck mold to incorporate a boarding platform on the transom.
If the cockpit and deck mold changed otherwise, I have not noticed. It certainly could have some changes, though.
LB
