Sleeping in portable gear list?

[icemac33]

I have a small wheel house now and am looking to go to an insulated portable next year. Right now I'm looking at a 8 x 8 canvas craft with a big buddy heater and a single burner propane stove. Cabelas has what looks like a good bunk bed cot system also. What else am I missing on the basic gear list here? Any tips or tricks to multi day outings, on big lakes, in a portable like this? Sorry if this is a major rehash. The search wasn't working for me.

[prov1900]

The search isn't working for me either...but this was talked about a little the other day re Big Buddy heaters. People talked about having a co angler to sleep in shifts. A lot of carbon monoxide gets put out by the Buddy heaters/any propane heater. Have good ventilation, which shouldn't be a huge problem with portables anyway. My question to you is this, where are you going to fit your cot? My concern would be that you wouldn't have the room, i.e. your cot and your heater. Just curious.

[chris63]

You can get small ready heaters that are vented(smoke stack)which are more safe than buddy or mr heaters.Some of the larger portables have a round hole (tube) in them for vented heaters.Hope this makes some sense? c63

[icemac33]

I definitely plan on running my nighthawk CO detector.I thought the buddy looked like a good option with the low oxygen sensor also. The bunks I've been looking at are the cam-o-cots at Cabelas. They are a bunkbed that runs 3' wide by 6.5'. That leaves 1.5' at the ends for storage and 5' x 8' of floor space for fishing and setting a heater. My current wheelhouse is 8 x 8, so I'm used to the tight spaces.

[prov1900]

That sounds good and something I would like to do as well, someday. Get a good sleeping bag and some cold suds, you will sleep well

[hill7410]

me and my dad have done this many years in the past, we made our own bunkbed cots and we slept in a 6x8, an 8x8 would be plenty of room, just make sure you have some vents open, we used just mr heaters and slept in mummy bags, plenty warm when we were miles out on lake of the woods.

[slipperybob]

My sleep gear list w/o fishing partner. I personally run a Coleman ProCat for sleeping. output 3000 btu on 1# tanks, runs for about 7 hours.

Cot

mummy sleeping bag

heat packs

CO detector (if using heater)

4'6" fishing pole (fishing from the cot)

[Kodiak]

man, sleeping in a portable sounds like pure torture to me, plus one would think that it would be a high danger for co poisoning.

go home or stay up all night man, no fish is worth sleeping in a portable.

[buzbunni]

Sleeping overnight in a portable is a blast. I just purchased a NorpacR2 Canvas Craft Shelter for that very reason (I bought the Otter-style unit). Previously I used my Clam 5600 and it worked just fine. For heat I ran a buddy heater attached to a 10lb tank. It helps to have some kind of a fan attached to the ceiling of the house to circulate the warm air around the house.

Having an insulated shelter will of course help to retain the heat as well. At night I set up one rattle-reel, and one tip-up with a bell clipped on the flag (both are inside the shelter). Nothing liking hearing the bell rattle, reaching over, setting the hook, and hauling up a nice catch, all from the comfort of your bed.