Ultimate Camping Setup - on-boat camping & sleeping

I've been using a KampRite Original tent cot for beach camping with my TI for some years now. I generally sleep on the beach, but I have support boards which allow me to sleep on the TI when necessary. I've slept on the cot on the TI quite a few times now and found it quite comfortable, sturdy, and quick to set up.
Here's a video with details.

Crazy idea for camping platform that could be used as a hakka while folded.

https://www.amazon.com/DNA-Motoring-TTC-HARD-015-Tri-Fold-Tonneau/dp/B07JCLB58S/

Specs state it weighs 66 lbs. That's quite heavy compared to other materials in that price range, such as composite sandwich panels.
https://www.rockwestcomposites.com/shop/plates-panels-angles/sandwich-panels or
https://www.carbon-core.com/products/laminated-panels/composite/

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Tom Tweed
2018 Adventure Island
La Jolla, CA

My apologies for not being on the forum for years and thanks for your comradeship.

Yeh the Snowys ultimate stretcher turned out to be far too heavy. I changed to 1.5 kg Naturehike $160 copies of the heleox stretches but used without the leg extensions.



I pitched my single self standing 1.2kg hike tent on top to the stretcher but extended the stretcher sides length wise for the full length of the tent - you can see similar stretcher extensions on stingy’s image below.



When 2 of us are camping, twin stretchers are used with a twin tent. I tried this out for a few trips on the Gippsland lakes with the intention of revisiting my childhood sailing in the Whitsundays.

Sadly the lakes have been infected with blue green algae for the last 18 months so no sailing.

To fill in time I decided to build a twin cockpit on top of the rear crossmember so two can sit side by side, raised out of the water a bit. With the stretchers cross ways on channel Al, the twin cockpit makes a good deck.
There is room enough between the twin seats to slip into a makeshift seat to paddle the front mirage. This would be seldom used as the solar panel, charger, battery and water snake combo gives me about 30 km at about 8km/hr with no sunlight and all day quiet motoring on a windless sunny day.

When in the process of moulding a front dodger around the cockpit to protect us when sailing in the Victorian winter, our TI was stolen.

I’m currently too broke to replace it and too busy to earn the extra money for it - In the middle of a post doc with at least another year’s work and an excellent but perhaps a too eager a supervisor; but I live in hope!
And I stare at all red TIs !

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Betabrain
TI, 200W solar, 50Ahr Lithium Ion, 34Lb Watersnake

How’s the camp setup going BetaBrainz? Can you turn on your pm setting (I can’t seem to message you directly thru the forum) or let me know your email/Facebook handle - would love to chat to see how your plans are going. My kamprite x2 setup is still sitting where I left it (have been busy prepping for a 4wd adventure), but keen to get back to it in the new year. I’d love to bring the boat down to Wilson’s prom area as seeing skull rock has always been on my bucket list !

I've been using two paddleboards as hakas; they weigh 19 pounds each. I figure I now have 5 "floaty parts" which makes the boat safer, and because they are strapped on, I found that if I remove the pastic "breakaway" pin, the amas stay in place. This provided a platform for a 4 person tent (with standing room) and a "no-man's land in between.
I haven't tried it yet, but I was thinking of carrying some roll-up-wood slats to bridge the ~32" wide gap in between. Imagine the base of a bed (36" long 3"x1" wood pieces attached together with nylon webbing and then rolled up). Here is what I tried and it worked well for sleeping IF there was no wind:





I could even pedal from the rear seat with the tent in place - which turned out to be necessary one night when the wind picked up and we needed to move to a more sheltered area.

With the roll up wood platform, a heavier anchor, and some ultra-protected coves, it would work very nicely. I did have to put foam wedges under the kayak-facing side part of the paddleboards to make a flat surface. If you were solo, your weight on one side or the other flattens the boat as it tips to that side, so you would not need the wedges. Also, if you sleep with two, their movements rock the boat a fair bit.

Here is our setup before using the big tent. This seemed unsafe - if the paddleboard suddenly deflated, you would be in the water, in a sleeping bag, in a tent. With the larger tent, supposing a board deflated, you'd be in the water, but the rest of the tent would still be above water and with an air space, so you could climb out without being trapped.