Ron,
As I have aged, I have found it necessary to reread my writing, sometimes more than once. Doing so doesn't insure that I catch all my faux pas, but is usually saves me some embarrassment. Jus' sayin'....
I would NEVER have thought of you as being a fashionista, trading in your ancient waterbed for some new-fangled sleeping arrangement, simply to be "up with the times" in bedding. I simply "assumed" that mattresses had improved sleeping comfort by using more modern materials. I never liked water beds. (Maybe not enough 'hull-thickness' between me and the water) - I spent enough of my life sloshing-around while in my rack - I prefer a solid base, perfectly horizontal, with no 'angles and dangles' to disturb my sleep.
NOTE: Explanation of "Sloshing Around"
You haven't lived until you've slept in a rack (a.k.a. "skid" - from Torpedo Skid) that was well lubricated with hydraulic oil, making it so slippery that you slid back and forth with every up or down angle, or else slipped sideways into the hull or the bow-plane-tilting motor with every roll. It's sort of like "sloshing" only without the water. That was my first bunk on the boat I qualified on. ("Non-Quals" get NO respect and lousy bunks!)
Rog