How Not to Pack a Canvas Tent: A Shackleford Banks Lesson

I, Bernie Harberts, did not use generative AI to write or illustrate this article. Spell check and grammar check, yes. AI, no.

This week I found myself in a similar predicament to the time my wife Julia said we should carry our kayaks on the deck of Grit, our Nimble 24 sailboat. I said no, we’d be fine towing them. That turned into a debacle.

My advice to Julia this time involved how to pack up the wall tent we’d pitched on Shackleford Banks. In this video I will instruct you on how to properly pack a canvas tent into its stuff sack. Sort of.

Julia’s side of the voyage at Saddle Under the Stars:

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