In keeping with non-conventional choices I've made in other areas, I'm planning on an athwartship giballed stove in Moon River. It will be just starboard of the centerline in the U-Shaped galley, the cook facing forward. There are as many opinions about this idea as there are about... well, everything boatish. But I'm going ahead with it anyway.
A search of the internet shows very little in the way of design for an athwartship gimballed stovetop. There won't be an oven, just a stove. My thought is to create a gimballed countertop, which allows a choice of stoves over time. A semicircle cabinet below the countertop would move with the gimbal, allowing use of that area for storage. The aft end of the counter would be either supported by a pivot on a bar across the front of it, or perhaps some sort of rollers underneath. The bar would prevent access to the cabinets when heeled, so I like the roller idea better. But it does add a point of failure and friction.
By the way - this isn't my idea. I lifted it from Lin Pardey's book, "The Care and Feeding of the Sailing Crew."
I'm looking for input on how to design this. Rollers underneath? What material? If I go that route, I'd still need to make something that holds it all in place in the event of a knockdown. How might that be done?
How far below the surface would I need to concentrate some lead weights? How much weight might be sufficient?