Rib tents for sleeping

[Trello]

Not Nasher - Tinker.

[Fenlander]

Yes sorry about the thread drift but it's a wet afternoon so can't go out on the bike.

Ahh the Drascombe was the 15ft Scaffie with a simple lugsail rig. Very beamy, no drop keel so very shallow draft. The coble type was called a Pebble and just a bit longer. On a stay at the coast we wandered into a boat sales yard with a feeling we should get back into boating, £1000 in our pockets and towbar on the car. These images are of the boats as they stood there. In many ways the Drascombe would have been more fun but Mrs F fancied at least some shelter with the cuddy on the Pebble.

[Pete7]

Spent 10 days cruising around the Channel Islands in 95 on a rib trip organised by Alan Priddy. Two of us slept on inflatable camping beds each side of the console, the beds fitting neatly under the inside of the tubes.

We were doing quite well until we arrived in Jersey. I got out the Coleman stove to make tea, when a concerned mobo owner opposite asked if we were going to light the thing. I said don't worry, I will do it on the pontoon, a perfect height when sitting on the tubes. Suddenly he produced an electric kettle and asked us to use that instead. You see we had 30 gallons of petrol in the main tank. Another 15 gallons in a second tank and some 5 gallon tanks up at the bow We accepted his offer.

Us moored on the outside with a rib called Kermit inside. She later sank one night. We woke up to find the water gently lapping over her transom. It had rained heavily that night and we had spent most of it armed with a mug each bailing out the Osprey Viper because the cover didn't quite cover the stern.

Pete

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Pete7

Us moored on the outside with a rib called Kermit inside. She later sank one night. We woke up to find the water gently lapping over her transom. It had rained heavily that night and we had spent most of it armed with a mug each bailing out the Osprey Viper because the cover didn't quite cover the stern.[/IMG]

So by virtue of sleeping on the boat (or at least trying to sleep), you possibly saved your boat from the same fate as Kermit...!

[Trello]

Originally Posted by Fenlander

These images are of the boats as they stood there.

I can see from the shape of the hull of the Pebble where you developed your love of the deep V that you have on your Aerotec.

[tinker]

Originally Posted by Fenlander

>>> never really enjoyed sleeping afloat either

I haven't slept afloat for some 25yrs but have very fond memories of the times when I did. Usually in the fore cabin surrounded by bagged sails and with the distinct smell of the anchor and chain in its adj locker by my feet. Aided by a full belly from the nights supper of tinned mince, tinned beans, tinned potatoes and tinned peas all mixed together and cooked in one saucepan. Pudding usually tinned peaches topped with carnation milk paste squeezed from a tube. Happy days.

25 years ago it probably would have been an adventure for me but at 55 years old it gets a bit long in the tooth.

We had the stern 'cabin' when we went with my mom and dad, it had a low ceiling, Mrs that week........"like sleeping in a coffin" and at near on 35 degrees it took some getting used to.

I slept on the deck for the first night, an alcohol induced coma nulled my senses to the ongoing feeding frenzy, i was covered from head to foot in bites.

[lakelandterrier]

No thing wrong with sleeping on a boat - as long as it's designed for that - spent much of my youth in the pointy end of small yachts in sleeping bag surrounded by the sails with the gentle motion of the boat, water lapping at the hull, the slapping of the rigging.....

However kipping on a rib, not designed for sleeping, cooking, toilet etc has no attraction for me. Camping ashore I get, but not sleeping on the rib itself.

Give me a long day on the water and a B&B and a pint in a pub in the evening...maybe I'm just getting old