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The small and compact dishwasher aboard Zanshin - open and empty.
(2014-02-17 11:07:36 NIKON D7100 with a "18.0-250.0 mm f/3.5-6.3" lens. [f/3.5, 1/250s] ISO 500)

This factory option has a bit of history. My first pass through the catalogue while I was putting together the order for Zanshin had me tick this option because I dislike doing dishes. Then, as is probably often the case when people go through the extras, the end price tag was quite a bit higher than I'd expected and I decided to make a second pass and pare away at options which weren't really necessary. I thought that since I was alone aboard most of the time the amount of dishes to clean wasn't going to be a lot and the little dishwasher was very, very expensive; so I ended up striking this item from my list of extras.
One day at work I spoke with a colleague, Desi(slava), and told her about the the dishwasher and how I'd decided to forego the pleasure of getting a device to clean my dirty dishes. She immediately grasped the heart of the matter and scoffed at me, telling me “Arnd, you are a fool. You are spending a fortune on this luxury boat, which is a toy, but you are too cheap to spend a bit extra for the luxury of not doing dishes!”
She was correct, in the grand scheme of things the dishwasher was going to bring me a lot of pleasure but the incremental prices wasn't horrendous - which is probably what the marketing people at Jeanneau were thinking when they placed that item on the list of options.

The diswasher compartment with a closed door.

The dishwasher partially opened during the commissioning process on Zanshin.