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    Posted: 28 Feb 17 at 5:31pm
Why not get a rooftop tent.  Loads of people buy them for 4x4/ safari trips.  You attach it to roof rails or roof bars and the sleeping part just folds out in about 30seconds (depending on model).  Throw a sleeping bag in and you're ready to go.  Then you can have a normal (cheaper) trailer for you boat and have the flexibility of using a double stacker etc if you chose to.
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I saw something once, it was a sort of mini-folding caravan/trailer tent affair, with brackets to hold the launching trolley on the folded lid.
It seemed to pack down to a box about 18in tall,  and open to a funny wedge shape.
It might have been Fireball related.

RS400atC, I think the trailer tent arrangement you are refferring to, belonged to Neil Thornton of Number1 sails, when he was campaigning on the Fireball circuit in 85/86.

It was beautifully made (as was everything Neil turned his hand to) but I only ever saw it in use once.
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"I saw something once, it was a sort of mini-folding caravan/trailer tent affair, with brackets to hold the launching trolley on the folded lid.
It seemed to pack down to a box about 18in tall,  and open to a funny wedge shape.
It might have been Fireball related.


RS400atC, I think the funny wedge shaped trailer tent you refer to belonged to Neil Thornton of  Number1  sails when he was campaigning on the Fireball circuit in about 85/86. There was an article about it in Fireball news at the time.

It was beautifully made ( as was everything Neil turned his hand to) but I only ever saw it in use once.
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I did consider whether a trailer tent would be a workable idea for open events: just put the boat on top, take it off when you get there. But all the trailer tents I found at the time were massively complicated affairs that expanded way beyond the footprint of the trailer and looked enormously complicated to erect and provided more facilities and hassle than I felt necessary. All I wanted was to lift up the top and have 4 canvas sides on the trailer footprint. A fold down leg at each corner would have been fine...
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Us catamaran sailors have it tough having to pull this lot around. Lost count of how many people ask if i sleep in it. Brought the caravan chassis on Ebay and got a local coach builder to do the rest. It works of sorts 


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I used the base off a touring caravan, £75 from a caravan breakers, made a box with 6 x 8ft x 4ft ply sheets, lined this out with cord carpet, used it to sleep in, boat was to go on top or on edge down the side, almost finished it when it was stolen.
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Lovin' the Germans, ixybox how lush is that. If you are a dedicated traveller who didn't like tents it could pay for itself over B&Bs or holiday cottages. Going the other way of camper van for accommodation is far from cheap, the T5 club continues to hold high secondhand values.
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There was a guy from stone sailing club who made at least one enclosed trailer and was in the trade, Mokes Boats" i think.
It was aluminium framed with glass fibre panels. He used to wheel his kids cadet out of it. Awesome bit of kit.
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Originally posted by MerlinMags

Originally posted by KazRob

A few years ago (well the 80s) a very well known Scottish laser sailor used a big horse box I believe to carry a few lasers and he could then sleep in it overnight. I assume he washed it first tho and I guess the idea would still work, but perhaps too low tech nowadays 


You can fit two Cadets in a horse lorry, and then four kids can sleep in it for a week. I'll always have fond memories of the Rutland indicators in 1989. Can't think why the parents all went to a local B&B?

It was something like this...

Did that drive into the hedge, or did the hedge grow after it broke down?
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Originally posted by KazRob

A few years ago (well the 80s) a very well known Scottish laser sailor used a big horse box I believe to carry a few lasers and he could then sleep in it overnight. I assume he washed it first tho and I guess the idea would still work, but perhaps too low tech nowadays 


You can fit two Cadets in a horse lorry, and then four kids can sleep in it for a week. I'll always have fond memories of the Rutland indicators in 1989. Can't think why the parents all went to a local B&B?

It was something like this...


Edited by MerlinMags - 24 Feb 17 at 1:07pm
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