Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Not having given up yet on a tent for Arwen

Whilst looking and admiring Joel's handiwork on his website for the umpteenth time I came across this blog and what lovely thinking about tents.  I could see how it would work on Arwen with no problem.

So more food for thought!

http://anemptygarage.blogspot.co.uk/

Steve

3 comments:

Joel Bergen said...

last summer I bought a couple cheap tents from walmart and started cutting them up and stitching them together to make a tent for Ellie. I didn't finish the project but it shows some potential. I chose a-frame tents which wasn't the best choice. I think cutting a dome tent in half and connecting them with a straight section with doors in it would be better. I hope to revisit that project again this summer. -Joel

Anders said...

Yes, there seems to ba as many tent ideas as there are boats... I will not get any further on mine until we have a proper spring (snowing outside now) and I can unwrap my boat.
/Anders

steve said...

Hi anders
I'm just waiting for better weather to have a play around as well

Steve