is it possible to design a cartopper that can sleep 2 overnight?

My 18' x 40" Clipper small freight canoe car tops very well in one piece even on a small car. Goes very far w small outboards and has a capacity of 1500lbs.
Could easily rig it w outrigger or outriggers, deck it (hard or soft) and would be less expensive than two kayaks. It's available in Kevlar and makes 5 or 6 knots w a 2.5hp OB.

 

Solway Dory in the UK have a new lightweight triamaran, it's an evolution of a series of sailing canoes and trimarans they have produced over the years.

It's designed to carry two and be car topped. Not sure about room for two to sleep onboard overnight. I think they normally lightweight camp.



and a video showing a pair of they sailing off Jura

http://www.solwaydory.co.uk/videos/17

Brian

 

Derek Van Loan (Junk Rig book) designed and built a 10 foot decked barge, raked ends, junk rig, and two people could actually crawl through the hatch and sleep "below". Not necessarily comfortably but out of the rain and wind.

 

The starter of this thread has not returned so I'm not sure why we're putting in all this effort ...

 

Because we like to hear our own heads rattle?

Actually, it's because no matter who asks a question, the answers reach -- and possibly help -- a whole lot of other people.

 

That Solway Dory tri is a neat little unit. Could sleep on it if you rigged up a tent across the beams.

 

Actually a cat is about the only portable boat you could sleep on.... the only things Ive seen sleeping in the bilge of a canoe are worms and leaves.

 

I wasn't thinking of inside the canoe but on a tramp or a sleeping platform. I agree that sleeping inside canoes is for nutters.

 

I don't see why most people wouldn't want to sleep ashore. I have an excellent book by Neil Frazer about camping in the Queen Charlotte Islands off the north coast of BC Canada. They used a 15' Sangster FG open OB boat at first and then a 17' open aluminum boat w a 50hp OB. They only slept on the boat "once or twice" in their extensive traveling and camping in the Charlotte's. The book is written for kayakers as well as powerboats the only real difference is that kayakers have much less gear and supplies and much much less speed over the water. Most people will also find the OB boats more seaworthy as well. The outboard boat of course must be "lined out" every night so some beaches in the book are classified as "kayak only". This book is a great armchair read and I highly recommend it.

 

In the Everglades canoers sleep on Chickee hut platforms.

 

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1365463

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lausanne/2468922748/

 

i can't get online every day, but i am actively interested and reading the thread.

my reasons for this idea are that there are areas around me where it's legal to anchor overnight, but no shore access/no camping allowed. it seems that the catamaran is the way to go, however it poses tons of it's own design challenges.

 

The Bay is a bear- private no-access properties are the norm along the shore lines.

 

Sleeping in the boat would also be nice in some wilderness areas. Many times it is hard to find a suitable campsite on shore. It may be wet, thick brush, rocky,etc.

C.O.
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