Sleeping Bags or Duvets....

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Sleeping bags are convenient but I really don't like using them on the boat. I use mine as a duvet but find 'tucking it in ' difficult due to the tight fit of my mattress! same thing for sheets, they are too big for the mattress so I'm always fighting with yards of material to make up my bed.
I think the best solution for me would be a tailored sheet with elastic corners to fit over the mattress and a duvet with a cover which had extensions to 'tuck under' the mattress.
What do use??
 
pcatterall said:
Sleeping bags are convenient but I really don't like using them on the boat. I use mine as a duvet but find 'tucking it in ' difficult due to the tight fit of my mattress! same thing for sheets, they are too big for the mattress so I'm always fighting with yards of material to make up my bed.
I think the best solution for me would be a tailored sheet with elastic corners to fit over the mattress and a duvet with a cover which had extensions to 'tuck under' the mattress.
What do use??
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I use Tesco sleeping bags at at tenner a pop because they are the only ones I have found (without looking terribly hard) which have soft, as opposed to shiny, fabric inside and out.
 
We use these: http://www.duvalay.co.uk/Boats/Boats-Memory-Foam-Sleeping-Bag

Not cheap, but two fit together well side by side in our aft cabin (just); the memory foam makes for a very comfortable night and the duvet is stitched down one side and along the foot of the mattress so never comes untucked / no cold feet!

We're very pleased with them and the two season pack means they work all year round for us. Changing the covers can be a bit of a struggle though!
 
It varies. Depending upon who's boat.
If I am out on my boat with family a duvet is just fine don't bother thinking much about tucking or fitting just do what works.
Sometimes use two sleeping bags open. Sometimes two duvets or even one of each.

My son sometimes just brings a blanket.

If I go sailing on another boat I bring a sleeping bag.

I have different sleeping bags for different pastimes. Heavy one for sailing, light for hiking or canoeing.

Main annoyance sleeping on boats is cusion buttons.
Why do boat designers put button's on cusion you are supposed to sleep on?
 
I started with sleeping bags, then sleeping bags that could be zipped into double ones, now duvets and elastic corners, but fitted over a memory foam mattress overlay. Alternatively, the overlay goes inside a duvet cover.
 
Assuming you're talking about a single berth, I use a double duvet - lay it over the berth hop on and flip the other half over myself.

Rob.
 
On our boat I use a sheet and duvet. The berth cushion is the right size for a fitted single sheet at one end; at the other there's a little bit of excess to be tucked under but it's easy.

On charter boats where I knew the type of boat and knew I would be able to commandeer a particular berth, I would also take a sheet and duvet. But if sailing with someone else, or where things were otherwise more fluid, I would take a sleeping bag for flexibility. I have a "houses and boats" sleeping bag, which is quite large and (like Jumbleduck's Tesco job) soft polycotton inside and out, unlike my "camping" bag which is far warmer but made of shiny techy fabric and a lot more restrictive in shape.

Pete
 
Houleaux said:
We use these: http://www.duvalay.co.uk/Boats/Boats-Memory-Foam-Sleeping-Bag

Not cheap, but two fit together well side by side in our aft cabin (just); the memory foam makes for a very comfortable night and the duvet is stitched down one side and along the foot of the mattress so never comes untucked / no cold feet!

We're very pleased with them and the two season pack means they work all year round for us. Changing the covers can be a bit of a struggle though!
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Camping, I hate sleeping bags, too short and get twisted round the legs, I have taken to a double duvet, under and over, bliss! It rolls up the same size as a sleeping bag, tie up and stuff in a bin liner.
 
I brought a cheap duvet set and duvet from Tesco and popped them into the local curtain making lady. I gave her the size and shape, she did the rest for £20.
 
Fitted (flannelette! :rolleyes:) sheet and double duvet. Flannelette means never cold when getting into bunk. Duvet not cut to shape; means no exposed feet in middle of night, but still allows for quick escape when needed.
 
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