I can measure mine tonight, but like you are suggesing, my seats are even with the camper ledge. Also, as Argonaout said, my table base is on the fender ledge(?) below the camper ledge.
Its been great, and to give you perspective, last fall we were camping with another family and ate in side to get out of the rain. 3 Adults and 2 four year olds... comfortably (relatively). I don't have seat backs... we rarely sit inside. once at camp, we sit in camp chairs. What could be more comfortable?
I left the seat backs off just to keep flexibility. Its easy to get underneath the seats, etc for storage. I presume you have a hawk, which has a bit more room than the eagle. The seat along the back is wide, as practical, so that seating for 3 is the norm.
here's my thread.
http://www.wanderthe...hp?/topic/2741/
Rob
Hey Rob, thanks for your input and the info on your excellent dinette build. Our atc ocelot dinette is maybe a little unusual in that we are designing it along with the original camper build, so we can't see it “hands-on” as the design progresses. We're using front-end, side-to-side seating, and I haven't found a lot of these to compare to so the functionality is still a little uncertain.
We do take yearly trips where early sunset, wind, and low temps drive us inside early which is a big reason for building this camper, but we don't plan to spend hours at the dinette on every trip. By contrast the gear storage will be used every time we load the camper. Always a compromise but we're hoping this will work out well for our use.
Right now it looks like 24” tall x 36” wide x 13” deep dinette seats with 24” knee room. The idea is to use the 2' x 3' area between the seats for tote-based gear storage which doubles as a foot platform while sitting up on the bar stool-tall seating.
My main concern is whether 13” seat cushions provide enough support to be comfortable. I think most everyone here has used seats over 14" deep so any thoughts based on other users' experiences would be great.
