An Improved Rain Catching Tent. Sailing Yes Let's 13
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- Опубликовано: 29 янв 2025
- This is my rain tent design. It both creates a dry space underneath, and collects rain water. My novel innovation is a soft fabric gutter. I've looked around the internet and have been unable to find anyone else with this design, so it appears to be my own invention!
A tent costs at least 10 times less than a water maker, doesn't require a lot of energy to operate, doesn't have expensive parts or tricky maintenance.
And it also keeps you dry when it rains, which a water maker doesn't!
On board Yes Let's I have 6x 20L jerrycans. That's 120 litres, and lasts me a month. If I use just the back half of the tent, that's about 20 square meters of catchment. 1mm of rain falling on 1 square meter is 1 litre so I could theoretically fill my tanks with just 6mm of rain. (that would require switching the tanks just as they fill etc) however, average monthly rainfall, anywhere in New Zealand, is a lot more than that. So for rain catchment, this is waaaay more than enough! but a big tent is nice for the dry space.
A big tent gets blown by the wind a lot, but since my catamaran can dry out, I can park in a much more sheltered spot than I could with a keeler, so this isn't a problem. On a keeler a smaller tent that just covered the cockpit would work, and still collect sufficient water.
Really enjoying your videos, thank you.
The Dominic Tar gutter! I LOVE this. Definitely gonna make one when I’m up and running again 👌😜😎🥰
haha thanks! essential in a rainy climate!
i love it, and love that you found a way to give it more than 1 use. not a good idea to have single use tools when living in a tiny space
Excellent.
Nice job!!
thanks!
Singer 306k I'm redoing the interior on my boat atm seems to be a good machine
Thanks for the upload
yeah it's pretty good, they don't make domestic machines with the steel body any more! not to mention, the chocolate milk colour! although a slightly more modern one than this would be good, it was hard to find the right bobbin and replacing the bobbin is a hassle, though every machine has it's own personality.
A little engineering goes a long way !
Sure does! I'm still thinking of improving it. A curved roof would make much better head room, but would need bendy poles. Probably closable ends will come before that.
👍!!!
It's a good idea. What are you using the water for? Are you filtering or boiling it, to be used as drinking water?
I drink it as is. rain water doesn't need filtering or boiling. it's already distilled by natural evaporation!
Actually this is a funny one. In the USA drinking rain water is officially discouraged. but in NZ it's very common. Much of rural NZ is on rain water. Usually it there is no special arrangement except a tank!
I just watched a video on YT where you can use a small segment of a branch of a tree to filter out waterborne contaminants as small as bacteria to filter water. They called it a lost primitive method 🙄 but it's totally effective. Peace and Health
I found it! wow, great tip. amazing that works but it makes so much sense!
@@dominictarrsailing 😁💯🙏🏽📿
Doesn't the water taste a bit like plastic with this tarpoulin?
Not at all. Water has to sitting inside plastic, such as PET bottle, a long time before you taste it. It barely touches the tarp. Then its stored inside food safe jerrycans.