BeckettBend,
Like Jay, I liked the pilot berth as a berth, but we only used it as a berth about 1% of the time; I can count on one hand the times anyone slept in it in the 19 years we've had the boat but then again, it's usually just the two of us. Maybe if we had kids, we would have kept it. I converted it to storage and an entertainment center with a hidden TV/DVD. I made the settee deeper by 5 inches and you wouldn't believe the difference that made!
The catalyst to start the project was the addition of central heat/AC and the foot of the pilot berth was a perfect, central location for the unit. There's photos of the job in an earlier post:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=817Good luck and if you feel like taking a trip to Virginia to check out the finished product, let me know......
Tom