{"id":254,"date":"2011-03-29T15:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2011-04-25T19:39:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T23:39:20","slug":"sleeping-aboard-the-pt-skiff-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/sleeping-aboard-the-pt-skiff-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping aboard the PT Skiff part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the questions I often get is if it is possible to sleep onboard the PT Skiff. My answer is YES.
\nWhen we went camp cruising, here is what we figured out in case a campsite ashore was not available. I finally set it up again and took a few snapshots.<\/p>\n

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We fit a piece of aluminum tube that hangs with lines attached to the gussets as a way of supporting the grates.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The tube hooks on for quick assembly and stows easily in the forward storage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We then put the grates from the aft cockpit across as a platform.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Therma-rest \/ air mattress and sleeping bag have plenty of room on this platform.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two Therma-rests can also be sufficiently supported by shifting the grates a little further apart at the middle seat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another arrangement is to put single mats on the grates in the aft cockpit. The grates are 6ft 3\u201d long.<\/p>\n

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Mattresses on the grates in the aft cockpit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"\"<\/a>We felt like our idea for sleeping aboard allowed for the least amount of additional equipment and was a very lightweight solution. We used our tent\u2019s rain-fly as a forward cover and I will post some pictures of that in the near future. A canvas dodger would also provide cover for the front and a tarp or canvas shade could provide cover for the back.\u00a0 AEB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the questions I often get is if it is possible to sleep onboard the PT Skiff. My answer is YES. When we went camp cruising, here is what we figured out in case a campsite ashore was not available. I finally set it up again and took a few snapshots. Another arrangement is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,41,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-pt-skiff-activities","category-pt_skiff_updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ptwatercraft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}