A sort of marine U-Haul?
Hi, Graham.
Welcome to the ranks of boat campers!
Camping with a boat (or car) gives you the opportunity to take items “just in case” without the weight penalty being too obvious. Its space that you run out of – as you discovered. Dont worry about taking too much stuff on a first trip, it wont take long to pare it down to what you actually need.
I caught the camping bug early in life and have served my time backpacking and cycle camping before I ever had a boat - and in doing so discovered.....
The Natural Laws of Lightweight Camping .
1. If you think you might need it you probably wont...
2. If you think you wont need it you probably will.....
3. Any fool can be uncomfortable if he tries hard enough.
4. Given a choice, dont cook on board – eat out. (Why waste a good Pub?)
5. Whatever you do - keep the sleeping bag and your tobacco DRY.
(Sorry? Did you think I was going to say something that might be helpful? )
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For a comfortable, midge-free night, a delicious, washing-up free breakfast and (most important) a refreshing, invigorating , mud-free shower..... may I recommend the White Lion in Bala or the Best Western at Betws-Y-Coed (...which has the added advantage of being a 30min drive closer to civilisation and well away from all that water.)
If you find the distant sounds of cutlery being set for breakfast as you lay in a warm, dry, bed unbearably civilised and actually prefer to be awoken at 4:30 am by a dawn chorus of coots squawking 2 inches from your ear then, I am afraid, there is no hope for you.
Picture shows a post-coot dawn, soaked in very wet dew. Idyllic, innit.