Boom tent for sailing yacht - above or below the boom?

Under boom is best because it is easier to seal up at the front (you can drop it to meet the sprayhood) and if the sail is wet it doesn't drip into your cockpit all evening. The downside is that it might be a bit harder to attach compared to just throwing a tarp over the boom. Also you lose the use of the boom as a place to hang coathangers from, so get loops sewn into the inside of an under boom tent if possible.
 
I'm getting a new mainsail this winter and I am dumping the lazyjacks so I can have a simple sailcover and put a boom tent over it. I want the headroom!
 
I suppose under-boom makes it easier to get around the topping lift if your boom is shorter than the end of the cockpit?

Being a numpty, I hadn't thought of under-boom, it'd make the simple tarp approach viable. I was thinking I'd have to cut a slot or something.
 
Mine is under boom. I unclip the mainsheet and heave up the topping lift a bit.
If you have problems supporting the aft end (mine attaches to the mizzen mast :) ) you can use a ridge pole - utilise a whisker pole or lash two boat hooks together.
Over boom is fraught with issues - Sail cover, hole for topping lift and you still have to support the aft end.
 
LadyInBed said:
Mine is under boom. I unclip the mainsheet and heave up the topping lift a bit.
If you have problems supporting the aft end (mine attaches to the mizzen mast :) ) you can use a ridge pole - utilise a whisker pole or lash two boat hooks together.
Over boom is fraught with issues - Sail cover, hole for topping lift and you still have to support the aft end.
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Mine will be a very simple boom-to-guard-rail only affair, which makes things (a) simpler and (b) chillier.
 
LadyInBed said:
I guess it depends on how much your boom extends over the cockpit.
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In my case, about halfway. I have no transom, which further limit options. My boom tent will therefore be a triangular back piece linking boom end and the guardrail attachment points on the rear pulpit and two joined trapezoidal side pieces going from the boom end to the rear guardrail attachment to the stanchion in front of the sprayhood to the boom.

Oh dear. Too many words. Something like this, but open at the front end:

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JumbleDuck said:
In my case, about halfway. I have no transom, which further limit options. My boom tent will therefore be a triangular back piece linking boom end and the guardrail attachment points on the rear pulpit and two joined trapezoidal side pieces going from the boom end to the rear guardrail attachment to the stanchion in front of the sprayhood to the boom.

Oh dear. Too many words. Something like this, but open at the front end:
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With all these tiles, will it no be a bit heavy?
 
Probably a good idea to cant the boom with the topping lift so that the gooseneck is lower than the outer end, as it stop raindrops keep falling on my head.......
 
The biggest improvement I made to our tent in the days when I had one was to attach it to the lifelines with bungee-cord rather than string, because it damped the flapping substantially.
 
LittleSister said:
That's not a cockpit enclosure, it's a conservatory! ;)
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But fully or partially dismantleable, used as a just bimini over the helm, bimini plus forwardsprayhood, , or used fully enclosed underway in rain. There is aclear anel in the top to view sail setting. Truthfully however it is an American design, amended to my taste and when underway I used to remove everything behind the spryhood except the bimini shade over the helm position, if only motoring up/down the ICW ( all boats become mobos in 'the Ditch'),often left the whole lot up out of laziness unless the wind was truly cooperative.
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This was one we had in the UK pictured in it's harbour stowed position bimini folded back to the goalposts centre section, sides and rear removed.
 
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