[Rhodes22-list] Aerobed on Board

[Chris Geankoplis]

Don't forget the Aerobed is a great water toy and liferaft too! Operators
are standing by.
Chris G
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:23 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Aerobed on Board


> Mary Lou,
>
> Try this if you haven't discovered it already:
>
> Put a full size (54x74) Aerobed over the cushions when you are sleeping
> in the cabin.  Get the pump that connects to 12 volts.  (All the air-bag
> valves are the same, and all the Aerobed pumps connect to all of the
> valves.)
>
> The air bag can be deployed and inflated in less than a minute.  The bag
> slightly overhangs the starboard side of the bed, and I put beanbag
> chairs under that lip to support it, but I don't think it really needs
> it.  The bag conforms to the mast support in the same way a Japanese
> woman's socks conform to her flip-flops.
>
> The system can be deflated and rolled back into its bag in less than 2
> minutes.  I store it forward.
>
> I got it as a test for Boom-Room sleeping (obviously it easily fits in
> the cockpit over the cockpit cushion fill-in boards) and was surprised
> to find it also could be shoe-horned into the cabin.
>
> I don't sleep without it.  It's like an air-bed and a water-bed rolled
> into one, and comfortable beyond belief.
>
> Bill Effros
>
>
>
> Mary Lou Troy wrote:
>
> > The boom room and the pop-top enclosure are two different items. You
> > can see them both in the picture on the General Boats website at
> > http://www.rhodes22.com/boom_room_large.html
> >
> > We have a pop-top enclosure that we use nearly every weekend and can
> > answer questions about it. I've been on a boat with the boom room up
> > only once. It was very spacious, enclosing the entire cockpit with
> > nearly vertical walls. If I remember correctly, the walls zipped into
> > place and there were some sort of poles supporting the structure.
> >
> > Mary Lou
> > 1991 R22 Fretless
> > Swan Creek, MD / Ft. Washington, PA
> >
> >
> > At 11:04 PM 8/16/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> >
> >> Does the boom room cover the poptop or is that a different item? Does
> >> anybody have pictures of the r22 with the boom room up?
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