sleeping in your boat?

Anybody ever done it? Do you wake up soaked in dew?

I'm also wondering if having the nav lights on all night might drain the battery.

Done it and its alot easier then setting up a tent and all that. Nav lights wont drain your battery unless your batteries are super weak to begin with.

Im friends with this girl that does it on her malibu all the time. just done sleep on the sun pad, she ended up in the lake one summer. haha

We went camping a few months ago and two people forgot a tent (don't ask me how) and they slept in the boat and said it was great.

thanks, all.

I'm thinking of hitting up a fabric store to see if I can cobble together a makeshift mosquito net to go over my tower and boat. I'll let you know how it goes.

slept on bddies tige many times for early morning sessions. no complaints, bring a blanket and a pillow. we had also been parting alot the nights before. it made sleeping that much easier



(Message edited by ride4cwb on September 05, 2009)

ikea bug net for a bed is about $10.

We used to sleep in our old boat all the time.
It had a couple filler cushions that made a bed out of the back wrap around seating.
When camping, my wife and I used to wade out to the anchored boat to "polish the seats"...

Ewww!!

Nothing wrong with tapping in your boat Jonny.
You gotta break it in some time.

Spiders.

We keep ours on the water all year, and the boat lift/boat are loaded with spiders by a week into summer

Ok so a few years ago We left to go to a Barefoot tournament in a sleepy little town in Indiana. What we did not know was there was some event in that town that slips my mind at this point. The result was there was not a motel room to be had. So we ended up sleeping in the boat that night in a park. We where waken up by the police wanting to know what the heck we where doing. To make matters worse it was our wedding anniversary. We used the pole to prop up the cover and did not get we from the due but I am sure we would have

I've done it a couple times years ago when I had gotten too drunk to set up a tent. It's not bad.

Getting some in the boat is great. I thought everyone did that?

Why did the cops wake you up? Is it illegal to sleep in your boat in a park? Proably just bored a-holes.

Did it a couple of times this year..A lot of fun.

For the record, you don't anchor with your navigation lights on. You anchor with only your anchor light on. An anchor light is a single white light visible from a full 360 degrees around and a distance of 2 miles.

http://www.boatus.com/boattech/anchorli.htm

http://www.uscgboating.org/SAFETY/fedreqs/equ_nav.htm

Hummm, maybe it is illegal to use your pole to prop the cover up, in a public place. (sorry I could not resist).

Slept in the boat on Sunday night. No issues whatsoever. I'll give some advice, wear a t-shirt. If you don't, you'll see what I mean when you wake up. Think of peeling your skin off.

Slept in mine a couple of times. The first time was great until about 3 in the morning when everything was covered in dew. The next time I put the cover on and it was OK.

We have done this many times, 52 times over the past 5 years. My wife would sleep on the back bench seat and I would sleep on the floor.
This year I took some PVC pipe put it in the stow away table and mounted it to the hole in the floor. Then I put the bow filler cushion on the table to make an area big enough for both of us to sleep together.

Much better than sleeping on the floor and remarkably comfortable.

As far as dew is concerned it does cover the boat depending on how cool it gets at night. Most of the time it is warm enough that it is not a problem.

Here are some pictures.

I woke up one morning on the far side of the lake to the boat rubbing against the cypress trees. I was a good thing we did't drive home that time. I didn't notice any dew.

Ive done it on the last 2 camping trips and I love it. Go to sleep under the stars.. I just lay my sleeping bag along the port side and a pillow.. so comfy!

A lot depends on your location. My bigger concern are the mosquitoes or noseeums that may eat you alive in some locations. Sleeping under the stars on Powell was awesome. In Florida, pray for a stiff breeze. As it says on our inlet, "Local Knowledge Required". Be prepared.

after a long night of partying, my autopilot switches on and takes me to my boat (docked). apparently im a big fan of listening to music (quietly) while im finishing my last beer. i usually wake up in the morning to people climbing in the boat to head out. quite comfortable if you ask me.

Do it all the time, the only bad thing is that you wake up at the crack of dawn when the sun comes up, because it gets f'ing hot fast. But then you look up and see the best water of your life and its all worth it. Its the best way to get everybody up for a 6am set.

My malibu sleeps 6 people comfortably and the dew is usually not a problem unless it gets a little cold.

Wow 6 I can't imagine 6 in my Vride.

I think that the term "its the motion in the ocean" would fit well in this thread

l1spoogy - 1 in bow, 2 on bench seats, 1 on floor, 2 on back deck. No one complains when they are blacked out haha, they are just lucky they made it on the boat, the stragglers just pass out on shore haha.

Taylor,
Yah I bet a few cocktails makes the sleeping arrangement you describe barable.

spoogy - that's a great set-up. kudos to you sir!

Always use to set up a tent on the beach but grew tired of not sleeping worrying about the anchor dragging and no boat in the morning. We camped out on the boat with other "experienced" boat campers Labor Day weekend. Tarp worked great until around midnight when it went from no wind to blowing like crazy. It sounded like thunder all night. I got about an hour of sleep. Wish I brought the tent. Good times! I'm sure we will do it again but I'll either check the wind predictions or go canvas.



(Message edited by ctsunsetter on September 15, 2009)

Sounds like someone should make a "camper" type canvass for over the tower. Would make sleeping on the hook more enjoyable.

Is that a gas lamp on the boarding platform? Absolutely no way would I consider having something like that anywhere near my boat.

Looks like a Jet boil stove - probably made coffee and cooked breakfast judging by the frying pan on the platform too

We sleep in our mastercraft x-45 all the time. I took a Rain-jacket from an old tent and use it with the boat cover extended pylons to push the wedge up from the front of the boat. We tie one end to the nose and the other to the top of the tower. The front section of the x-45 is like a queen size bed if you have the middle walk thru insert. Works well, covers the sides and top like a wedge. Sleep like a baby

"1 in bow, 2 on bench seats, 1 on floor, 2 on back deck. No one complains when they are blacked out haha"

Hopefully you aren't in deep water with blacked out people sleeping on the back deck!

Check out these boat covers: http://www.intracoastalproducts.com/

This might work great for sleeping in a boat as long as it doesn't rain.

Jason haha hopefully the fall from the deck to the swim platform will wake them up

anybody that i'm worried about falling in gets thrown on the floor

"Sounds like someone should make a "camper" type canvass for over the tower. Would make sleeping on the hook more enjoyable."

Like this? For the cold PNW winter riding!

Kirk, where did you get that, or did you make it? that is rockin for winter riding...wanted to do somethin similiar for when we ride this winter lol

That boat belongs to a friend of ours in the Portland area. Like Kirk said, it's great for winter riding. It's a 23' LSV so the cabin area is really big.
Heres another friend's boat, who lives in NW WA. It's a 21' Vride, also great for winter rides, but not quite as big inside for sleeping in.
Both were made by local shops.

I wish I had done that to my boat. Turn on the heater and sit in comfort watching someone else freeze in the 43 degree water!

Def. Want for winter riding.....wonder what the price tag is associated to making it from scratch though...

Around $1000 - $1500... depending on how much material & how many bows.