Old style cockpit tent - slug news

[dylanwinter]

When I was cleaning out the shed I came across the original cockpit tent from the slug.

I posted it to Richard

Here it is - heavy canvas

once it gets wet it only takes a week to dry

http://www.keepturningleft.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/slug-tent.jpg

 

[doug748]

I have a similar "tonneau" cover

Tres chic.

Cap Ferrat here we come.

 

[aquaplane]

I have something similar for Carousel. The boat was kept for a while on the broads and the tent is reminisent of one on a classic Broads cruiser.



TBH, I don't use it as I don't want to put it away wet. It's too good to let it get spoilt by mildew.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I've just found the cockpit tent for my Hunter 490. Some experiments coming up.

 

[aquaplane]

JD, you can have hours of fun trying to work out how to rig it, you can with mine anyway.

There are 4 poles, two wood supports and various bits of string + the canvas confusing all on it's own.

 

[JumbleDuck]

JD, you can have hours of fun trying to work out how to rig it, you can with mine anyway.

I'm looking forward to it. I have a horrible feeling that it depends on a "pushpit" (four short stanchions and a rope round the top) which was removed many years ago.

 

[Greenheart]

I've concluded that for my humble purposes, a bivouac on the bottom-boards and an old tarp over the boom, may be the easiest solution.

The tarpaulin would keep heavy rain off, held over the gunwales by shock-cord...and the bivouac will keep midges (and eight-legged crew-members) out of my sleeping bag.

 

[JumbleDuck]

I've concluded that for my humble purposes, a bivouac on the bottom-boards and an old tarp over the boom, may be the easiest solution.

The tarpaulin would keep heavy rain off, held over the gunwales by shock-cord...and the bivouac will keep midges (and eight-legged crew-members) out of my sleeping bag.

On my last boat I had a simple rectangular boom tent as you describe and it worked just fine. I'm not at all convinced that the complication of side and ends is worth it.

 

[EuanMcKenzie]

Saw a boat in tarbert with a second tarp over the spinnaker pole which had been clipped to the mast at one end and was near deck level at the other they had no spray hood so it stopped the rain blowing in the open end

 

[dylanwinter]

Saw a boat in tarbert with a second tarp over the spinnaker pole which had been clipped to the mast at one end and was near deck level at the other they had no spray hood so it stopped the rain blowing in the open end

excellent idea

I shall try that

D

 

[Rivers & creeks]

TBH, I don't use it as I don't want to put it away wet. It's too good to let it get spoilt by mildew.

Why not use it and let it wear out? Not using something in case it gets spoilt is a bit odd.