Sorry, slightly girly question. But how many of you.......

Duvet &cover, 4 pillowcases, sheet: washed but not ironed after trip, put back on boat as it's not too damp; teatowels ditto; sleeping bag/s for emergency/quarterberth- never washed as far as I know!
 
Not girly at all ...at least not for civilised males.
I have worked for two organisations (ICC Salcombe and Plymouth SoMS) who both provided sleeping bags and, in an attempt to be hygienic, things we called liners. These were shaped just like the sleeping bag but made of linen. You stuffed them inside the bag and then "got between the sheets". These, along with a pillowcase per crew member, were exchanged for newly laundered ones at the end of each trip.
On the occasional two weeker, or even longer, each crew was provided with enough for a clean one each week.
 
Re: Vac pac bags

[ QUOTE ]
Can you enlighten be where they can be bought please. Is it possible to suck the air out using the inlet of a dinghy pump ?

[/ QUOTE ]Do a Google on vacuum storage bags and get from whoever... they are for use with the nozzle of a 'standard' vacuum cleaner, but you should be able to frig something. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Re: Luxury shear luxury

our memory foam matress toppers that is. We're sleeping baggers in the main. Nice big ones though can't abide those tight fit jobs. Not enough permanent berths to go making up a proper bed. In summer we use duvet covers instead of the bags. Pillows & slips, fleece blankets, teatowels are all boat specific.
 
`Only silk sheets for us, washed, ironed and refitted by the butler prior to every visit.

OK, king size duvet and synthetic pillows that totally fill the aft cabin and make the best snuggling in history. We just use our bedding from home. Stored sleeping bags for under way.
 
A duvet for the boat, plus a sleeping bag for sleeping on (never did like the vinyl cushion covers) and pillows from the spare bed. Duvet and pillows now have their own covers 'cos at home the duvet sits on the top of a wardrobe and becomes the cat's bed. I find the boat too damp to leave linen on board permanently, although all the curtains (hand made by SWMBO) stay. We transport all the bedding in one of those giant "third world" zip up plastic carriers.
 
re d) you only can because you are a part time worker, some of us are too busy!

We use a flannelette (sp?) sheet as a base and another as an oversheet, with the option of one or two opened out sleeping bags over the top of that. The bags can be used as singles if needs must, eg in the saloon whilst under way.

You haven't told us whether or not you iron your jammies though Becky, or is it the baby doll nighthie?
 
Well, preparing for another winter living aboard, I've just changed my approach on this one. Previously, I used a sleeping bag, but I always manage to somehow wriggle out of it in the night and end up clammy and horrible on the vinyl covers (due for replacement when I can afford it).

So now, a blanket and a sheet covers the berth I will sleep in, with a duvet and two pillows that my mum had going spare. I ha ve yet to discover whether these will suffer dampness from being close to the hull, as Crystal has a useful arrangement in which full-length flaps lift up to provide more shoulder room when the berths are in sleeping mode, and conceal the bedding when not.
 
Boat has own duvets, towels tea towels etc and pillows. Pillows and duvets are down for spring/autumn, lighter duvets in summer. We have not yet succumbed to the decadence of sheets.

(Wooden boat, never a trace of damp, and yes we dust the bilges! )
 
Tip from the domestic supremo;
Forget expensive micro-fleece towels, alleged to be quick-dry. Instead scrounge some cot sheeets from persons with kids (they grow out of em). These are cotton, but very quick to dry (much more so than 'proper' towelling) and they make adequate towels. Large persons may need two.
C
 
when just kipping for a night on a boat I use a sleeping bag and a great big, furry blanket, with an inflatable pillow, blanket goes under and over me, great for keeping you warm when its cold. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

For family sleeping on the boat, I will use an under blanket, either spare sleeping bag or made for job thing, duvet and blanket, with proper pillows, because of this, I have enough duvet to sleep 20 peeps, between house and boat stuff, and more sheets than will fit in the cupboard if all clean. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
 
I do my ironing in the evenings, I don't have time during the day.
And as to how I deal with my baby doll night attire, well believe me, they are far too flimsy to iron. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Seems to me that the Forumites, by and large, are very civilised when it comes to sleeping.

Except Jimi, of course. I suspect he just curls up in hs kilt, with a little sprig of heather for a pillow, to remind him of the extreme North, which is where I assume he hails from.
 
[ QUOTE ]
And as to how I deal with my baby doll night attire, well believe me, they are far too flimsy to iron.

[/ QUOTE ]

I'm beating it down with a big stick, but it won't listen. sny ideas?
 
Couldn't agree more. My boat isn't caravan with beds made up with duvets. The sleeping bags come out after dark when the all the creepy crawlies are about and you keep your head under the covers!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top