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In our case, the sleeping bags were on an air mattress...mine must have been
touching a part of the tent that leaked. Oh, and the trick for keeping the clothes dry? Keep then in the plane...assuming, of course, that the plane doesn't leak. -- Jack Allison PP-ASEL "When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return" - Leonardo Da Vinci (Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail) |
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"Morgans" post/the/group.here.net wrote: "Jack Allison" wrote The tricky part at OSH is trying to dry out a sleeping bag between storms. The trick at OSH is to not let that sleeping bag get wet in the first place.g Really, with a queen sized air bed, it isn't that hard, keeping the bag out of the water. Keeping the clothes out of the water has been the hard part for me! -- ---Jim in NC--- The best trick is to have relatives or friends who live in Oshkosh. We got there on Tuesday, got parked in the Far South 40. Went back on Wed. AM to see if we could move to a better parking spot. I had Linda save a spot in the Classic area while another friend and I went to get the plane. Along the way, I suggested that we try a "legal" move and contacted the Vintage volunteers. They gave me a prime spot, just a few planes away from the giraffe-painted Sikorsky S-39 and the zebra-painted S-38. We went back to Linda and told her that we had a better parking spot and to meet us at the Aeroshell motorhome. It was a good thin that we released her, as it began to pour rain just after we got to the plane! The old Johnson Rocket got a prime spot. I got to see the ill-fated Hughes Racer (wht a magnificent piece of art!). I think that it was scheduled to fly on Thursday, but the rain interrupted that demo. I was shocked to read this week that both it and Jim Wright were lost in Yellowstone Park. My condolences to everybody. -- To get random signatures put text files into a folder called ³Random Signatures² into your Preferences folder. |
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Jack Allison wrote:. The tricky part at OSH is trying to dry out a sleeping bag between storms. You walk outside after a seminar or after going through the booths, see nasty dark clouds, hear a thunder clap and *know* you won't make it back to your camp before it starts raining. My bag finally dried out after about three days. Felt like I was sleeping in a sponge the first night after it got wet. Ah, but it was all worth it though. I'm hooked and already thinking about next year. The "trick" is to hang things inside!! We have a HUGE tent (Eureka - "The Lodge") that has a sleeping room and a porch (no floor). Both rooms have huge windows and we keep the ones in the sleeping room closed at ALL times we are away from the tent. Both rooms have rings you can hang ropes from for drying things and for hammocks for stuff you want to keep off the ground. We do string a laundry line outside also, but only for things we have duplicates of (towels, etc.). We have a queen size air mattress so the bags don't get wet. I also pack a couple of days clothes in plastic bags. Sometimes I just leave a bunch of things in the plane for dryness sake. You really can stay high and dry in OSH with a bit of advance planning. Margy |
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"Margy Natalie" wrote in message
... Jack Allison wrote:. The tricky part at OSH is trying to dry out a sleeping bag between storms. You walk outside after a seminar or after going through the booths, see nasty dark clouds, hear a thunder clap and *know* you won't make it back to your camp before it starts raining. My bag finally dried out after about three days. Felt like I was sleeping in a sponge the first night after it got wet. Ah, but it was all worth it though. I'm hooked and already thinking about next year. The "trick" is to hang things inside!! We have a HUGE tent (Eureka - "The Lodge") that has a sleeping room and a porch (no floor). Both rooms have huge windows and we keep the ones in the sleeping room closed at ALL times we are away from the tent. Both rooms have rings you can hang ropes from for drying things and for hammocks for stuff you want to keep off the ground. We do string a laundry line outside also, but only for things we have duplicates of (towels, etc.). We have a queen size air mattress so the bags don't get wet. I also pack a couple of days clothes in plastic bags. Sometimes I just leave a bunch of things in the plane for dryness sake. You really can stay high and dry in OSH with a bit of advance planning. Margy I'll second Margy's comments about hanging things up. I even was able to do this in a small, backpack tent that I carried with me on a business trips some years and was able to steal a couple of days at OSH. In my case, I just had to be sure that nothing touched the rip-stop fabric (avoid wicking, obviously), but it was doable even in a small tent. In my larger tent, it was a piece of cake. Thanks for the reminder, Margy. As an aside, there's nothing like trying to sleep in a tiny, orange rip-stop nylon tent when lightning is all around. You would swear that the tent blew away and the light part of the "show" is right above you. Eventually, I got used to it. :-) Michael Pilla |
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I'll second Margy's comments about hanging things up. I even was able to
do this in a small, backpack tent that I carried with me on a business trips some years and was able to steal a couple of days at OSH. In my case, I just had to be sure that nothing touched the rip-stop fabric (avoid wicking, obviously), but it was doable even in a small tent. In my larger tent, it was a piece of cake. Thanks for the reminder, Margy. As an aside, there's nothing like trying to sleep in a tiny, orange rip-stop nylon tent when lightning is all around. You would swear that the tent blew away and the light part of the "show" is right above you. Eventually, I got used to it. :-) Michael Pilla My trick is a small rubbermaid type of organizer, then sit the suitcase (soft sides) up on top of that. My tent is too small for hanging much. -- Jim in NC-- |
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("Michael Pilla" wrote)
snip As an aside, there's nothing like trying to sleep in a tiny, orange rip-stop nylon tent when lightning is all around. You would swear that the tent blew away and the light part of the "show" is right above you. Eventually, I got used to it. :-) One word: Dorms :-) -- Montblack |
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One word: Dorms :-)
It's funny -- I've had several people who stayed in the dorms come to me, offering their sincere and heartfelt condolences for our "terrible time" spent camping at Oshkosh this year. (We lost our tent in the first storm...) As wet as the week was, I still wouldn't have traded places with you. To be able to wake up on the field each morning and see 11,000 airplanes parked wingtip-to-wingtip, as far as the eye can see -- man, there's nothing else like it. When it comes to Oshkosh, I'm drip-dry! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Jay Honeck wrote:
It's funny -- I've had several people who stayed in the dorms come to me, offering their sincere and heartfelt condolences for our "terrible time" spent camping at Oshkosh this year. (We lost our tent in the first storm...) Lost your tent??? Wow! As in "...where did our tent go?"??? As wet as the week was, I still wouldn't have traded places with you. To be able to wake up on the field each morning and see 11,000 airplanes parked wingtip-to-wingtip, as far as the eye can see -- man, there's nothing else like it. When it comes to Oshkosh, I'm drip-dry! Me, too! I tried staying the dorms the last 2 years after getting thoroughly soaked in my tent 3 years ago, but I missed waking up on the field. There's nothing like it. I got soaked in my tent again this year, but I'll be back for another soaking next year. I kinda miss the guy that used to yodel on the PA system in the early morning, though (what happened to that?), and the the guy that used to fire up his AT6 the second the airport opened in the morning. I didn't hear either of those this year. Remove SHIRT to reply directly. Dave |
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Dave Butler wrote: I kinda miss the guy that used to yodel on the PA system in the early morning, though (what happened to that?), and the the guy that used to fire up his AT6 the second the airport opened in the morning. I didn't hear either of those this year. You should have been camping in the show plane area. We heard him loud and clear. Margy |
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Lost your tent??? Wow! As in "...where did our tent go?"???
No, as in "Holy crap, how did my tent get lifted up onto my wing!?" I came back from spending the day shopping to find it laying over the starboard wing. One of the one-inch aluminum poles was actually bent over the trailing edge of the wing. (Those wings are a lot tougher than they look.) The wind actually snapped off three plastic stakes, and threw the tent -- gear inside and all! -- about ten feet. We found our ground cloth three rows down, wrapped around the nosegear of a Skyhawk... I kinda miss the guy that used to yodel on the PA system in the early morning, though (what happened to that?) ??? We heard him everyday! And we were waaaay out by the new Hilton. Maybe that mid-range "pilot's deafness" is creeping up on you, eh? (I wouldn't have minded not hearing those first departures at 6:22 AM... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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