New tent

[Captain Kidd]

Ok, we hijacked Riley's thread, so let's start a new one regarding boat tents.

Here are some pics of a trial fit of my new pop-up tent.

Here's the side view. The white guy lines are temporary. The yellow lines that are still coiled are provided.

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Interior view. It almost fills my sleeping platform which is what I wanted. A one person tent would fit better but not offer near as much room for gear and movement.

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The tent will not go all the way to the stern due to the mizzen. I could remove that but simplicity is the order of the day. Hence, the tent extends about a foot beyond my platform in the front. I think I can live with that. The mast, yard, and sail get in the way a bit; but that's manageable. I do have to let them hang over the bow.

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Because a frame runs around the entire bottom of the tent and is kind of spring loaded, the tent wants to rise up fore and aft. I believe that can be solved with a couple short lines in the front and simple weight of gear in the rear of the tent.

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I'm going to attach two eye straps to the transom to be able to tie off the rear guylines. I can tie off the fore lines to a line I have running just under the inwale. I believe tying off these four lines as well as weight in the rear and 2 tie-downs on the front edge will keep it fairly taught and help to shed rain. 

I think it's going to work. Now to "field" test it in the rain.

[Doug SC]

Laughing with you about the synchronicity! Thank you for hijacking Riley's thread. I had wondered about buying one of these tents and you inspired me to give one a try. At the cost of a decent meal out it seemed to be a no brainer. Too bad we weren't able to combine the threads. The Scamp has lots of dry storage, so the smaller tent fits the bill for me. I also like that it could be set up on shore if you wanted too.

Did you fold it up while on the boat?

[Captain Kidd]

Did you fold it up while on the boat?

No, but I'm pretty sure it can be done. I've got the fold-up process memorized in three steps: 1)fold in and over, 2) press left in and down and simultaneously press right out and down [which creates a figure 8], 3) fold over the figure 8. Presto!

Sure seems like those poles should break. I've read at least one review where it did break. I've folded it up three times so far.

[Noemi - Ensenada 20]

I'm pretty good with spatial things, but folding up those kinds of figure eight-y things (like car windshield sunshades) is always a matter of luck for me!