RE: M_Boats: boom tent w/out lifelines?
You know, another idea I've thought about is buying a used four person Eureka Timberline tent (or new for that matter--it's an inexpensive tent), and using the frame with just the rain fly. Seems like it would be easy enought to figure out attaching the bottoms of the poles to the toe rail and stabilizing the whole thing with the boom. t Tom Smith & Jane Van Winkle Sandpoint, Idaho M15-345, Chukar -----Original Message----- From: ron and cathryn goodspeed [mailto:rcgoodspeed@mac.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 9:53 AM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: boom tent w/out lifelines? Greetings , I have been thinking about a boom tent design for "hula pie", [M17 w/o lifelines] that would use the main halyard to pull up on a tab at the peak of the tent giving greater headroom and using a couple of fiberglass battens or 1/2 inch PVC pipe across the boat and tied down to the rails to give it some arch for rain to run off. I would try out this idea first with a tarp or some Tyvek first. What do you think? Maybe connect a sail slide to the end of a batten that ran longitudinally and connected with a T or passed under the cross battens. What would be really slick to use are those bungee/ aluminum tent supports that pull apart and fold up to about 15 inches long. Thanks to all for the exchange of info, photos and ideas, Ron and Cathryn Goodspeed M17 #025 "hula pie" _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats This message was scanned for viruses.
I have one of those (plus about 6 others in the basement....curse of an old Scout leader I suppose). The rain fly of a Timberline might work....just the center ridge pole, plus the two ends, should hold up the center, and use the bungee clips on the corners to hold it out. It even has lift rings on top that you could suspend it with. But as I recall, UV light will destroy it pretty fast. They don't recommend leaving them up long, so it would best be used as a temp rain shield. Howard On 12/19/02 1:51 PM, "Smith, Tom" <Tom.Smith@itron.com> wrote:
You know, another idea I've thought about is buying a used four person Eureka Timberline tent (or new for that matter--it's an inexpensive tent), and using the frame with just the rain fly. Seems like it would be easy enought to figure out attaching the bottoms of the poles to the toe rail and stabilizing the whole thing with the boom. t
Tom Smith & Jane Van Winkle Sandpoint, Idaho M15-345, Chukar
That might be a much simpler approach to what I'm proposing . . . The Timberline's poles are aluminum, so would be a little less flexible than fiberglass . . . But the Timberline being completely free-standing, with no spikes needed to pitch, would be very adaptable . . . Would 4-person be bigger than you'd need for the M15? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Smith, Tom" <Tom.Smith@itron.com> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:51 PM Subject: boom tent w/out lifelines? You know, another idea I've thought about is buying a used four person Eureka Timberline tent (or new for that matter--it's an inexpensive tent), and using the frame with just the rain fly. Seems like it would be easy enought to figure out attaching the bottoms of the poles to the toe rail and stabilizing the whole thing with the boom. t Tom Smith & Jane Van Winkle Sandpoint, Idaho M15-345, Chukar
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