Great idea, Mary Dooly. Please show us videos of you sailing your new Rhubarbie. ( ... Out of Rogers shadow ...... 😊)

Thanks Mary loved to see how your camping works would love to see you sail in your local area and how you set up for a journey, raid etc. Look forward to more content.✌️

Brilliant video Mary, that's a wonderful setup you have, thank you so much for the detailed demonstration. Pleeeeeeeeease make more videos! God bless and fair winds, Chris 👍

Great video... I miss seeing you in Roger's, so it was a pleasant surprise that I came across this. Please make more.

Could we see you in your new scamp doing a camp trip from your home port ? Please ! Mary.😁

Hi from Japan, Mary! Very well-done video. I was pleasantly surprised that you were able to meet up with Roger in Venice. Cheers, and fair winds.

The real tricky bit is folding up the pop-up tent and getting it back in the bag!

Would love to see you sail, the scenes and such. This is a good alternative to the canvas tarp mod tent. Great video!

It is great to see your own setup Mary, that's a great one! I've enjoyed seeing you on Roger's vids, so it's great to see your boat.

Fun video and fun lady. Thank you for making this.

Congratulations for the video Mary.

Ingenious Mary Dooley - what a great idea! Excellent warning about the potential for entanglement in a capsize as seems an important safety issue for any sleep-on boat. Typically we would have some warning although a sudden capsize while sleeping would prove treacherous in a confused state. Maybe having the life vest inside the tent perhaps attached to the tent opening? Even sleeping GI Joe/Jane style with a suitable knife strapped to ones arm or leg could address a range similar scenarios? Have enjoyed your cameos on Roger's channel so excited to now discover you have your own!

Thanks for sharing Mary, keep the videos coming cheers Paul

This is the best of all the videos I have studied. Thanks Eamonn/ Galway bay

Splendid I really enjoyed seeing your set up. Any more videos would be great.

Very nice!

Thanks for the video it was brilliant! You have an ability to communicate beautifully naturaly. i was watching loads of roger barnes videos and discovered a way to get into sailing i love his boat but yours seems more manageable for one person. i would love to see more videos about your boat and how you sail her. Brilliant idea with the tent😬

Justo lo que estoy por hacer. Muy bueno tu vídeo

Great video Mary , hope you make many more. Thanks 😊

Nice to see how you set things up. I am currently getting my Mirror cruise-ready so very interesting to see your video.

Nice video, Mary! It is great to see you have a channel. Keep them coming! subscribed

brilliant and simple design, love it!

Happy to see you in your own video. Cordialement Yves Bouchard . Quebec Canada

Excellent informative video Mary .... stepping out from RBs shadow!! ...... great practical advice for those who wondered whether a Mirror could be used for cruising..... of course it can! Any more in this series, much anticipated. 👍👨🏻☘️

i saw you demonstrate this on Roger's video. Very clever

Excellent, inspiring! Thankyou.

It's the sweet lady from the Wodga channel... I'll pop in and say "Hello" !

Such a very nice set up. Love ❤️ it. Very well done girl. Thanks for sharing 👍. I have still not found a decant way to get a tent installed on my Hobbie Tandem Island. Even so with my outriggers, nothing really worked right. Your wood "floor" idea is pretty sweet. I will try to do "kinda" the same concept. Seems very promising (even so, my boat is just a piece of floating plastic"). I am not worried about capsizing due the "wing span". Just struggling with "keeping it simple" but also very effective. Happy to see you someday around. Always fair winds and safe travels. Greetings from Spain 🇪🇸

Nice set-up and lovely boat, I love the idea of sailing and staying overnight on board, something I'd love to get into but haven't even got the foggiest how to sail yet..never even been on a sail boat but one day .

Nice friendly video thankyou

Great video Mary! Please keep the videos coming. I’m a subscriber now. I’ve viewed the video of your sail to Clovelly with Roger B many times.

Hello Mary. This is a nice surprise. Subbed you and look forward to the next vid. A friend of mine has a Mirror and I told him about your tent as it was seen in one of Rogers' vids some time ago. Keep well and keep on keeping on.

I Love it Mary. Nice video. I've seen you sailing with Roger. It was nice to see you doing your own videos. Cheers from Brazil.

Good ideas kiddo :) Am just going after a Mirror for exactly this purpose. Cheers.

Brilliant!

Great job....

Very interesting.

My Australian built Mirror only had the back Mast step! Might have to look at altering that! I was looking at a boom tent but this looks much easier to stow. Thanks for the video!

Keep up sailing and make sure you record it all !thanks Mary

This is amazing. I'm looking into getting a dinghy I can camp in, and this is a great setup! Good thinking about having the inner door left open. I never thought about what would happen if the boat capsized while you were asleep. It's a scary thought. I'd probably do something like bring a rope from outside so I could follow it through the openings.

The same Mary who now has a Scamp and was in Rogers Brittany dinghy raid last week?

Good point about being trapped in case of a capsize. I think I'd keep a knife close at hand, maybe in a leg sheath like scuba divers use ... or just camp in places where the water's so shallow, capsize is impossible.

Great video thanks. Can see some lovely trips with my children utilising this. Would be great to have a video on solo self launch and land in a mirror as new to this boat. Also KZfaq lacks a good video on rigging a mirror for the newbie. Looking forward to more great videos thanks for sharing your knowledge :)

brilliant!

Great video. Did you do one on the sleeping platform? I thought you had. Hopefully we'll see more videos of you out on the water this summer. Looking forward to that.

I'm an absolute beginner, husband has bought a mirror and I am looking forward to being able to take it out alone as I will learn best alone - brilliant to see someone doing it lots - similar age to me - mucho learning to happen yet though !

Rocking the mighty Mirror! Go Mary! I'm 18 stone 5'11'' I managed my first kip afloat on my Mirror recently.Once I was in my bag I was comfy, but getting there was " doable" I expect beaching is a better option for the likes of me. Still a lot of fun! Looking forward to more Mirror clips 👍

So coool!

Cool 👍😀

A small quick release sheath knife on a neck lanyard or ankle strap is a valuable safety precaution whenever sleeping rough on a boat or anywhere trouble may arise unexpectedly. 👣🕊👽

is is very clever :)

Would it not be easier and more spacious to just use a tarp set up with the boat's boom acting as the centre of the "tent". Pre-made tie out points to suit and you could really maximise the space on the dinghy. The pop up tent idea seems a little cumbersome to me. Whatever works for you though, as long as you're having fun, that's what it's all about. Cheers for a cool wee video

Excellent video. Great idea. What thickness ply did you use?

These song is a Brazilian song? Nice video, I would like to see your adventures.

Now that you have a Scamp, will you be making any more videos?

Hi Mary lovely video ,have you any sailing videos of your adventures in the mirror dinghy,

Blimmin genius!

What a palaver, eyyyy! only joking...... nice video

That was well explained, thank you. But how easy is it to de-rig the tent and get it back in it's bag? The fact that these pop up tents usually get left behind after festivals pre-empts my question!

I'm a Wayfarer cruiser and watch most related material, so it was a pleasant surprise to see your vid. I thought your trip in France was good and your comments on Roger's puffing whilst rowing and falling bridge debris made me smile. How much practise did you need before you were able to complete the tent manoeuvre without it taking your head off. There should have been some out takes.

Great video, I wonder if I could sleep on my little Gull....

I am in the process of doing something similar with my Miracle

❤🧡💚🖤

Thank you for an enjoyable video. I have one or two questions. I notice that when you moved the mast forward, you did not move the shrouds to the forward shroud plates. This explains the tackle arrangement on the forestay. Am I right in thinking that this tackle stays rigged permanently when you are sailing, and that the tensioning line is the one that returns to the cockpit and is secured at the vertical cleat between the open lockers just below the mast foot? Also, did you consider making bed boards to fit between the side decks rather than resting on them - lighter and smaller - and if so, what made you decide against it? I'm in the process of adapting a Mirror for cruising (with the DCA) right now, and a pop-up tent, which I have, is one of the 'accommodation' options I am looking at.

Hi Mary. I would like to do the same in my mirror. Is it a two second - 1 (the original-one person tent) ? No longer produced i think. Kind regards. Fausto DCA 2949

More videos? Please?

Could you keep a knife in an accessible location to cut away the tent should you capsize?

Hello. Do you think this could sleep two?

when are we having more videos Mary?

Very nice!