Keeping The Slappers At Bay

[Emjaytoo]

Having just spent another sleepless night with the waves slapping up against the stern of our AWB (at 2 am we had to move from the aftcabin to the forepeak!), we are considering buying one of these - Sleeper

Does anyone have one? Are they any good?

 

[capnsensible]

The boat on the next pontoon to us has a cheaper option. He has strung together a couple of those foam noodle thingy's that kids play with in swimming pools. He has tied these athwartships across the transom at the waterline. May be worth a try?

 

[billcowan]

swap your AWB for a MAB
sleep like a baby. (even in a f8)

mind you I need a f3 just to get going

 

[William_H]

Yes my little boat is quite light and designed to have the transom just touching the water with a crew of 3 in cockpit. When I try to sleep in the midships the stern is out of the water such that waves get under the stern before they slap. It is all very noisy.

Though I havn't tried it almost any object that fills the gap and dissipates the wave power slowly or in an irregular manner should help.

So an inflatable tubearound the stern should work. Or old tyres strung under neath but at the surface. Or an old sail twisted into a cylinder shape hung around the stern near water line might do it.

Another approach might be a dinghy on davits that is lifted to pull the stern down more if it is indeed the stern out of the water.

The trouble is it only occurs with waves coming from aft or sideways and is not a problem (usually) when the boat is facing into a wind. What ever you use will be a pain to have to store, rig up after arrival and unrig before departure. Good luck olewill

 

[Iota]

Ear plugs are cheaper and likely to be just as effective.

or

a couple of fenders joined end to end with a weight similar effect

Iota

 

[rwoofer]

I bought something called a Wave Muffler that works on the same principle. It was about 75% effective - in some situations it completely stopped the noise, in most in reduced it and in the odd situation it didn't do anything.

For those times that you really need it, you do appreciate it.

The sleeper looks a better design as it has a skirt to it as well. The muffler was just an irregular sausage tube.

 

[Rabbie]

Go to your local fire station and ask nicely for an old bit of 4" delivery hose. Cut to size. Fill with anything that will float. Eyelets in each end and a spare bit of rope - cost - nothing. Don't look brilliant but who cares, and it worked for me.

 

[stuey_two]

Our boats previous owner left us a length of rope with a half dozen 30cm lengths of foam pipe insulation on it - don't know yet if it works, but it was very cheap

 

[Allan]

A customer of mine uses a rope with bubblewrap wrapped around it. He says this is better as he can taper the size down toward the centre.
Allan