Camping setup on the hobie adventure island

[@Sail2spear]

Soon to be a Hobie ai owner after selling my catamaran and now plan to do some trips out to some islands here in Australia so found your video useful Thanks for sharing

[@rodbagley]

A new tandem Adventure Island is about $6300.00. Then add trampoline etc.and your up a few hundred more. Kind of high. Can buy a small sail boat for what these things are going for! I got and old demo. It was a few years old when I got it. Mine is a single. Was about 2000 bucks then. They have made quite a few improvements over the years. The new seats are 100% better than the old ones. New rudder much better. They are a little higher in the water. Helps keep the people dryer. The seat helps in that too. They are a blast to sail. Even fun in ruff seas.

[@phrayzar]

Thanks, it's good to see peoples gear set up.

[@MowgliWolfcub]

Thanks for sharing. Looks great! Not many videos out there on this.

[@TheFishinMusician]

Thanks OzRemoteWorker, the only real change to the handling of the AI when fully loaded down like that is it gets a bit sluggish. These boats will tend to submarine when running downwind at any decent speed & since most of the storage is in the front hatch, this is compounded when loaded up like this. I'm a fairly large bloke & combined with a load of camping gear the boat sits a bit lower down than normal & definitely feels less "sporty"than usual :) nothing un-manageable though. 1 other th

[@willfreund3315]

Thanks a bunch for the overview. What are some of the bests lessons learned from doing adventure island camping? I am planning a 1,000 mile expedition in an AI next year and learning everything I can.

[@rgg765]

Have you thought about a bow flotation bag like the ones used for sea kayaks? Load it up way in the front of the bow then add your camping stuff. Will try it myself and let you know how it worked for me. I too, am not a small fellow so my kayaks have a tendency to ride a little lower in the water. hence me getting a TI for sailing and camping!

[@tikisailor]

Nice video and very informative. Thanks.

[@TheFishinMusician]

Good question donger805 & the answer is I don't actually know at the moment! I'll weigh my camping load when I next head out & try & give you an accurate answer. As far as sailing it goes its not that bad really unless going downwind, then it'l submarine a little. Otherwise it just feels a bit sluggish when loaded that much.

[@TheFishinMusician]

the heavy ones were just from a local fishing/watersports store. alpine country in morwell, vic, aus.

[@OzRemoteWorker]

Nice vid. Does all the camping gear change the handling of the AI (I saw the submarining in the high wind vid, asking more about how the general handling is affected)

[@TripSmith]

Nice run through! New Hobie TI owner here. Have you done many trips lately? I have one overnighter under my belt that I did the first day I bought the boat, I have a wonderful time but I definitely learned some things and realized some things that would be nice to have, a deck bag being one if them. I also like what you mentioned about the bag glued under the Hobie tackle box. I haven't seen that before, happen to have any photos?

[@TheFishinMusician]

Thanks SailingandSuch, Just spent the last weekend on our local lake, a lot of the time in the rain :) deck bags are good, but i still keep the contents in individual dry bags incase of leakage (which has happened) Re: the bag/box, glued under the hobie box, it didnt really work out so ive ditched the idea, i now have my first aid/repair stuff in the hobie dry bag,stowed in the hull under the seat via the center hatch. ive also changed my tackle boxes to the deep hobie ones with no partitions which is working much better for fitting larger items in. hope that helps

[@TheFishinMusician]

Hi antsrealm. I'm TheFishinMusician

[@Nicholastriase]

How much is an Adventure island?

[@rey073]

Thanks for posting. Sounds like we both like doing the same sort of stuff. It’s good to compare yours and my setups. You’re right, the more times you do it, the less you take. But it’s funny cause even though you take less, why is it that you’re always scratching for spare room at launch time. Or is it just me. I’ll subscribe to your page and check out some more of your stuff. Please do the same with mine and we can compare notes. Cheers

[@antsrealm]

whats your username on akff ?

[@MowgliWolfcub]

Thanks for sharing. Looks great! Not many videos out there on this.