| Subject:
Norway's
Ken Jensen reports on great boom tent
----- Original Message ----- From: KEN/K.H.Jensen To: Allan Sue Parry ; Malcolm Gillian Henderson ; Al Uncle Schönborn Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 5:09 PM Subject: W tent - W1348 Hello Friends! (Thanks Al for handling comments!) The boat-tent
of W1348
will be 34 yrs. of age this summer, but is still very useful as
indicated
on this photo at the Beaver Pond from last year's Telemark Cruise -
just
for info!
 For the first and last time ever, I have removed/scraped 20 years of antifouling off W1348 and we are rebuilding again now, being quite delayed in launching this year - but in about 3 days! Ken jr. is here to help me. W.best W-wishes Ken &
Co.
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Hej, Ken: I like your boom tent with the curved poles in the middle. Must be nice and roomy and easier to move in boat without hitting the wet tent!! ... Uncle Al
(W3854)
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Dear Al, ... Very pleased if someone can make use of my old tent-design. Our common late W-friend Ian Proctor made a drawing of it, which I have seen somewhere. Please note it has double canvas along the boom about 1 meter wide, and the front flaps are zipped to-gether and tied down to the frontdecks in front of the wave breaker, also the back-flap is zipped at each corner down to the corners of the transom. It was made by
a man
who made tents for expeditions to Greenland, and he had his own secret
impregnation mixture. The curved poles are nylon-tubes for electrical
wiring.
They have an internal reinforcement of ordinary flower-bamboo-sticks
and
fit into the rowlock-sockets. When bent inward, the top ends fit
into a larger size nylon-tube, which I have sewed to the inside of the
tent about amidships, and are tied together under the boom (and under
the
downfacing, tightly packed mainsail) with nylon strings. This is
also where we use to hang the tent lamp. At the very aft end, the
spreader
batten is actually a galvanised steel-tube, about ½" diameter,
as
the pull is marked.
 The two photos are 30 years old by now - include my late wife, Mait, and youngest boys. She is preparing breakfast a sunny morning with a cool/chilly landbreeze, which the half tent gives protection against. ..  The tent can also be folded/rolled up from the aft to amidship, where the roll is tied up leaving the front part to give protection while motoring along in calm conditions and with the possibility of rain. Well, take
care all
of you - going out for a sailing trip! Love, Ken.
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Hej Al ! First of all take care and then if possible it would be convenient to have a direct IT-address to point to for the tent-design, which came about 34-35 years ago after I (on number 2 W. to DK) had tried the bullet proof heavy canvas one, which sagged inward and took away all space, air and light! ... We are just back in from a 6 hours trip. No wind in the morning so outboard going out to start fishing. Had to search for them and got some before the wind got troublesome by giving too fast a drift. By then mainsail enough with boom lifted by using mini-reef and the forward boom-end lifted up to Cunningham hole - good working space for handling trolling lines. Caught two lively and lovely mackerel, and by then Tim had slaughtered all the fish and fed the seagulls, so we borrowed/tied up to a buoy by an island towards the open fjord and had lunch - lovely with a cool beer. Won't shock you by mentioning the dish though. Then a nap flat on our backs before fishing our way home under sail. All the best - love from here. Ken |