FOAK: Tents

Makes them easier to find when they blow away

 

Was there a 'missing' smiley in there or is that their reasoning ?

D.

 

Smileys are for the hard of thinking.

 

Depends who you share the cabin with, surely?

 

Fantastic. Cheap as chips, too.

Worth buying one just for the novelty factor alone.

The Khyam Biker is still my favoured option, but I may buy both.

 

I get seriously bored on the 90-odd minute Dover-Calais crossing.

 

It's a bit different when you can go to the bar, have some food, get
pissed then go to bed.

The following morning, you can wake up to a decent breakfast, go for a
dip in the pool, then leisurely get your stuff together before driving
off.

 

I've got one of these:
http://www.findmeatent.com/specs/Outwell/Black-Rock/

It's easy to put up, got a good sized porch (with groundsheet) for your kit,
and enough room inside to fidget. There are lighter tents around (though
this is only 5kg), and there are tents that fold up smaller - but that porch
is so bloody useful.

The bad news is that I don't think they make it any more, but there's bound
to be something similar available.

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

Have you been across Biscay before?

 

No, I read that it can be a bit rough - but it's a fair sized ship built
for that route, so I was kind of assuming they'd managed to make it
tolerable.

 

(SteveH) wrote in :

I hear Pont Aven is pretty good, when it's not being repaired.

 

Heh - it's the best option if you want to hit Spain - the P&O crossing
from Portsmouth is several hours longer and only saves around 40 quid.

 

Nothing wrong with a bit of rough, biker boy.

 

Some bugger who doesn't snore would be good.....

 

I've been across the BofB on one of those ferries and, trust me, it gets
a bit movementy.

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

The BoB broke the Pont Aven which had to limp back to Brittany Ferries base
in Roscoff. Apparently, they've armour plated the vulnerable bits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Pont-Aven

 

ISTR boredom not being your only problem, Mr Bean.

 

I've got a tree man Khyam[1] with two 'porches'[2] that goes on the bike
no trouble.

[1] The only way to go if you have ever put up one of those dome tents
that you thread the pole through.

[2] You stick the Givi boxes et al in one porch and come in and out
through the other.

 

I was on the Rosslare Cherbourg ferry one time many years ago. This
is, even at the best of times, a long (22hr) fairly choppy crossing.
This particular time, the weather was so bad, that although we'd
reached French waters, it was judged to be too rough to make a safe
entrance to the harbour, and so we ended up bobbing up and down
outside for another 7-8 hours. Of course, being a student at the time,
I hadn't got a cabin, so we had to doss down in the bar the whole
time, which wasn't a particular problem.

Just about everyone was sick. I mean, everyone was sick. The heads had
had so many people sick down the toilets and sinks that they had all
become blocked, and the floor was covered with a roughly 15cm deep
pool of sick and piss. People were just opening up the outside door
and pissing/puking in through it into this pool.

of course, the sight and smell of this was causing a knock-on effect
were people were throwing up before they could make it to the bogs/
outside, and so just about everywhere (outside of the bar) was covered
in sick.

It wasn't a pleasant journey.

I wasn't sick, mind.

 

pretty much. I find that if I feel ill, just getting some fresh air
helps it go away. And if you've already been drinking, the swaying of
the floor doesn't seem so bad.