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Started 10 months ago by TinyTanks
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TinyTanks
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Hey Fellas,

I am 99% going to tackle the EC again but am changing crafts to a small day sailor I own. Last year I did it on a hobie and stopped to pitch camp every evening. My plan is to sleep on the boat on the hook to save time. In reviewing the rules it says "a tarp isn't a shelter' and "some boats can qualify as shelters."

My question is if attaching a tarp over the boom and having some level of waterproofing on bags/blankets would pass inspection? Additionally I wondered if any of the other sailors do this?

I am really excited yet again to get on the water with everyone and I will be introducing a new tribesman (name still undert development).

Thank and Happy New Year.

Tiny Tanks

Posted 10 months ago #
BustedRudder
Member

My two cents on a good question.

Bringing a small tent will suffice as a shelter for inspection and you have it in case.
A tarp will not protect you from wind driven rain, you might be free of mosquitos if far enough from shore but you will not be free of no see ums.

Sleep is difficult when being gnawed on all night.

Posted 10 months ago #
CrazyRussian
Member

I slept in bivy sack on trampoline. Setting tarp over a boom is too much work for EC.

Posted 10 months ago #
danceswithmullet
Member

I did the challenge 3 times in a Bluejay. I had a tarp that extended from a Dodger to protect me from the elements but not the bugs. In reality I lived in my fowl weather gear,boots and sailing gloves. The only access to me for the bugs was my face. It really just became element protection of the face since the rest of me was weather and bug protected. I still use this defense when cruising the Everglades park area. If I need to go into little shark river I suit up in foulies with gloves, headnet and boots. DWM

Posted 10 months ago #
PrivateHam
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Hey TinyTanks,
Good to see your coming for another run. I’m pretty sure a tarp and a bivy would satisfy the requirements. I would have to read the rules again but I think the goal is that you have an ability to hunker down and stay warm and dry if things get tough.

Posted 10 months ago #
PinkDog
Member

In the two EC’s and one NCUM that I’ve done, any sleeping, whether en route or stopped, was aboard our boat (CS17) except one night. We have a retractable dodger style cabin that we used some times, and sometimes didn’t bother. It is a big time/effort saver for sure. We always carry a tent as a backup which should satisfy the requirement, is a minimal weight penalty, and is a good redundancy in my opinion.

In the 2018 EC we didn’t see a single mosquito. In 2019, they ate me alive through my shirt sleeves, through my bivy sack bug mesh!

Posted 10 months ago #
TinyTanks
Member

Thanks for all the input fellas. I think I have what I need to create a plan.

Took a cruise yesterday with a couple buddies. Really getting pumped!

TinyTanks

Posted 10 months ago #
GreyBeard
Member

BustedRudder wrote:

My two cents on a good question.

Bringing a small tent will suffice as a shelter for inspection and you have it in case.
A tarp will not protect you from wind driven rain, you might be free of mosquitos if far enough from shore but you will not be free of no see ums.

Sleep is difficult when being gnawed on all night.

This is what Doug and I used to do before getting a boat with a cabin. We didn't ever use the tent. I just took shelter under a dodger and slept in a drysuit with a mosquito net and gloves when the bugs started biting. I have always done the EC as double. If the wind was blowing, we were almost always moving, night and day.

Posted 10 months ago #
NVNG
Member

Guys I have often thought about cover from rain and from the bites of bugs. I have set up my Crawford Melonseed with a tarp and have put a inflatable mat down and can get quite comfortable. I've thought of taking old netting and making a collapsible vertical holder for it with the edge of the netting weighted.

The thought is once I'm horizontal on the mattress pad, open the 18" x18" frame above my head and chest and throw the netting over it. And likewise use a hat netting for the other times when vertical. I have issues with being a food source for bugs and it is getting worse with age.

These are also at Walmart...

https://www.zoro.com/zoro-select-mosquito-head-net-168941/i/G4138106/feature-product?gclid=CjwKCAiAo7HwBRBKEiwAvC_Q8fWVB5kNAGm8ubyU7TeMB4Xbd5wjXLjMWwHsma955Nu2_CUv090PvRoCNp8QAvD_BwE

RobK nothing ventured nothing gained

Posted 9 months ago #
MisterMoon
Member

Most of the time I was in class 4, we slept in the boat. But we always carried a tent and there was at least one instance where we were glad to have it. We got down to Middle Cape one evening and the wind and tide was whipping in the wrong direction, so we beached and slept. The bugs were horrific, which made the tent crucially important.

Posted 9 months ago #
WindTern
Member

I'm resading this forum and nobody has mentioned Pic for bugs. I have found that this is the most effective repellant I have ever used. I light up a one inch piece, let it burn in the tent before I get into it. Once I get in, I never had a problem with mosquito's or No-see-um's. If you are using a tarp, you may have to keep one lit for the entire night, but they are very effective.

https://smile.amazon.com/W4W-Portable-Mosquito-Coil-Holder/dp/B07RTZL34P/ref=sr_1_11?crid=1R1HXKSP7NP8K&keywords=pic+mosquito+coils&qid=1577910167&sprefix=Pic+mos%2Caps%2C175&sr=8-11

Posted 9 months ago #
ChesapeakeTJAM
Member

I'm in a totally different situation but there is what you do and there is what you must have. I'm on a SUP and carry a complete hammock system (hammock, straps, bugnet and canopy) but utilized my ground cloth and slept on my board. The idea is, it's there if I need it. On a boat 3-4 pounds for a tent isn't as much of a big deal.

See ya on the beach!

Posted 9 months ago #
danceswithmullet
Member

Well on a solo trip on the ketch from the keys back home I anchored off middle cape two nights ago. I was about a 1/4 mile off the beach. Took a kayak to the beach for a walk about an hour before sunset. A few no seeums was all I experienced. Getting back to the boat and figuring I was far enough off to not have any issues as soon as the sun set holy crap! I lit a coil to no effect and did the slap dance until I got all my screening in place. We have had record rainfall in southwest Florida this December and there is a bumper crop of bugs. I am anchored in pelican bay on cayo costa tonight and I am taking a gamble that this howling south wind is enough protection but the screens are at the ready. Lesson learned!DWM

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