bring back the hammock

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They are good for your sleep quality.

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(11)00539-2


If you have a rocking hammock or bed with a swing period of about 4 seconds, then your sleep 'quality' increases substantially, especially for naps.

Which is perhaps why boats are good for you, too ? :D

Look at the graph, low centre (red line)

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I am sufficiently old to have been issued with a hammock (1949), which I used - they take some beating! Still have my kitbag, but not my hammock.
 
Surely science-cleverdickery is the last reason why a hammock makes sense aboard a yacht...there are much clearer ones, without thinking hard.

A gimballed bed, that folds away into a shoe-box. Wow! That's clever. If it didn't already exist, someone could be raking the profits in... :D
 
Surely the advantage of a hammock is that it remains still whilst the ship rolls?

Another good thing about hammocks on a warship is that they would be stowed away compactly during the daytime, leaving a large living space.
 
I've never tried a "proper" canvas hammock, but I used to have one of those green mesh ones sold in army-surplus shops. I could never have slept in that - however tight I stretched it before getting in, I ended up bent like a banana with the middle sagging down. Couldn't have rolled over either, which I find tends to prevent me getting to sleep.

Are canvas ones any better?

Pete
 
I used to regulally sleep in a canvas hammock on our scouts MTB. Best nights sleep ever... even at sea. We used sleeping bags, the trick is to get into your sleeping bag first, then lift yourself up in a seeted position in the middle of the hammock holding your sleeping bag up with your teeth. Then swing your legs up and head down at the same time. Simples....

A cool trick we played on the younger ones was to wait untill they were in their hammock and then tell them the knot at the head end was wrong. Untie it to the last loop and give them the end to hold. Then make a swift exit!!!! LOL!!
 
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Health & Safety, car 32...emergency...head for the home of Alpha22. Known danger to his crew. Seek and restrain. :D:D
 
Scotty_Tradewind said:
If you do use a hammock what other 'bed linnen' etc would you use?
Surely a sleeping bag would be almost impossible?
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We were issued with one wool blanket (no pyjamas, no sheets), a slim 'bed' and spare 'bed' cover. In an establishment or ship where it was considered neccesary, a spare blanket was available on loan. If you slung your 'mick' tightly , there was little sag, however some used to sleep, at a near right angle. Most used a hammock stretcher at the head.
Of course it gave plenty of room in the mess when stowed and was available for damage control or even to be used as a lifesaver. A drawback was when jack came aboard with a skinfull, often after several tries he could not get up into his mick, gave up, cursed and slept on the deck all night. Greatcoats would sometimes be used as extra bedding and of course bell bottoms were often put into their 'seven sea' creases when placed beneath the 'bed'.

My Dad(an Air Mech aboard Argus) in WW1 ko'd the PO that pulled him out of his hammock and was put on a charge of Attempted Mutiny (dicey in WW1), managed to get the charge reduced.
 
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Alpha22 said:
A cool trick we played on the younger ones was to wait untill they were in their hammock and then tell them the knot at the head end was wrong. Untie it to the last loop and give them the end to hold. Then make a swift exit!!!! LOL!!
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this brightened my morning right up. :D

id love t put a hamoc up but modern houses rarley have solid internal walls any more and i cant think of how i would re-inforce a boat bulkhead to hold my weight. Has anyone ever managed to fit a hamoc into the forecabin in a small cruiser?
 
How about the 3D hammock..? Give me a moment, I haven't thought it through, yet...

The end-ropes are tied beneath a pole, with a frame like a triangular coat-hanger...and the top 'hook' is the only point of contact with the cabin. Maybe have a shock-cord connection somewhere, to prevent the suspended sleeper spinning round.

Whether the vessel pitches or yaws, the sleeper lies still. And concievably other crew members also lie still, on the cabin floor, concussed by the sleeper's boots clobbering them in the cranium. :rolleyes:

I'll just keep thinking...
 
We have pipe- cot berth on Shamaya our Vancouver 27, and that is my daughter favourite bed!
I don’t mind sleeping there, but double berth in fore cabin it’s a bit more suitable for me…
 
If at sea at night you did have to give some thought as to which way to sling your hammock. Fore 'n aft or thwartships. It could make the difference between a good nights sleep or not. Not that we ever got a GOOD nights sleep as we always had to be up for an hour or two on night watch. Why was it that I always got 3 'till 4???
 
dancrane said:
How about the 3D hammock..? Give me a moment, I haven't thought it through, yet...

The end-ropes are tied beneath a pole, with a frame like a triangular coat-hanger...and the top 'hook' is the only point of contact with the cabin. Maybe have a shock-cord connection somewhere, to prevent the suspended sleeper spinning round.

Whether the vessel pitches or yaws, the sleeper lies still. And concievably other crew members also lie still, on the cabin floor, concussed by the sleeper's boots clobbering them in the cranium. :rolleyes:

I'll just keep thinking...
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Reminds me that years ago I read that somebody once invented a passenger ship in which the entire passenger accomodation was gimballed.

Apparently it was not a success.
 
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