Club Arnage

I may be about to swap my camping tickets for MB this year. The team have previously stayed in Musee for many years.

We plan to arrive at lunchtime on the Wednesday to pitch our 5/6 tents, few gazebo's, etc, usual stuff. Is there any decent space left at this time. Also where is it best to pitch the tent (if there is space of course). Any other useful tips for the campsite.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

Tony, check this topic (http://www.clubarnage.com/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=2853) for some ideas and suggestions about MB.

Are there any bogs / showers on MB?

yes both although the showers are very busy

Thanks Chris. Depending upon spaces (I am arriving on Wed lunch time) where is the best place to try and pitch the tents.

It doesnt really matter but i would prob try and stay this side of the bogs where the tarmac roads are but its up to you

Tony, there's some weird sh*t goes down in MB. Take your pi-meter with you, and try and stay in the more stable areas. And keep away from the Smokie zone, last time I walked past there it sounded like a cross between a sawmill and a slaughterhouse, and that was only about one in the afternoon.
By Wednesday lunchtime you should still have a decent choice of spots. Our intrepid lads who were slingshotting round the Kuyper belt have sent back a couple of early photos, and I've posted one below. It's early days in their journey yet, but you can see that there's still quite a choice of pitches.
H

Furthermore...
This might help Tony, below is pic of MB taken on Wednesday 2004 (am and AD).
Also, here is a picture of my a*rse taken on Sunday morning, although I doubt if that is any help.
H

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a friend of ours will be on BSJ, we'll pay him regular morning visits and won't forget our shampoo and towel ;)

We were on Houx last year and you don't have to show any sort of pass to get in and out so it would seem that as long as you are happy to walk there any sites showers / loos are open to anyone.

What I am interpreting from the comments is; Good campsite, but shame about the showers. Too few for too many people.

Am I correct in assuming that if I go early for the showers (maybe 7:30/8:00ish), then they are less busy?

Cheers,

Tony

I take it you mean in the evening Tony, as I am sure you will only just be hitting the sack at this time of morning  ;D

Best time for the showers is about 3 or 4 am. Just before heading off to the fair  8)

Mr Cutler will no doubt be recounting how to build your own shower when he gets back online...there was a fine idea in use at Sebring.

I think it is time to invest in a shower. Too much time at Le Mans septn queing for the dam things. Worth the wait though when you see the foxy babes with their mops. I wonder if any of them will be earning some estra cash in the Spearmint tent.

Any suggestions for showers would be welcome.

Here's what we did last year for a 12v shower which we'll probably use again this year.

Take one large bucket. Fill with warm water (boiled kettles topped up with cold) place a 12v submersible pump in the bottom of the bucket (from a caravan or a bilge pump from a boat) and attach a shower head to it via a hose.

OK, now for the slightly more complex but much better version.

Take a hose from a direct source and fit a splitter so that you create two sources from the one. Run one directly to where you would like your shower (cold feed). Take the second source and connect it to a long coil of copper pipe bent round in a coil. Dig a hole large enough to house the coil and some charcoal. From the other end of the coiled copper, connect more hose and run to where the shower will be (hot feed) Place a flow regulator on to each of these sources, then put these into another splitter so that you have one single outlet with variable hot and cold water inlets.

Place the copper piping into the hole in the ground and set light to the charcoal. As the water passes through the copper it is heating by the charcoal fire and produces a steady stream of hot water.

As you couldn't get a constant water connection where we were camped, they actually ran thsi system from a huge trough fo cold water with a bilge pump so it was effectively a combination of the two.

Others we've seen on site are of course the shower bags heated by teh sun that you can get in any campning shop, and the large black containers placed on top of campers and lorries to warm in the sun and are then gravity fed.

There you have it, your own shower.

I took a slightly easier route, although it is dependent on space in your vehicle!  I brought a pump action shower, just fill with warm water and off you go.

The pump action shower is basically like one of those weedkiller applicators, a big water carrier which you pressurise by pumping a handle and it sprays out water for long enough to have a shower.  It worked suprisingly well, in fact better than expected!

What sort of flow rate did you get Chrisgr31?? And did you just have a small nozzle on it like you get on the ones in garden centres or was this from a camping shop with a proper shower head.

Any details/links?

We discovered that do actually sell some vehicles with showers already in if this seems a bit of a fuss...I think the man said they were called motorhomes.  ;) ;)

Should we consider a luxuary shower package for sale on site? Perhaps 10 Euros including as much soap and bog roll as you need? Or 20 Euros and we include a cold beer and a massage from one of our team? ;D

I say, you should be able to charge a damn sight more than that if you were to get Hannah to go for it  :o

(http://www.beermountain.com/Hannah100.jpg)

Ahh yes, understand - absolutely, nudge, wink etc :P

You'll be after the VIP massage package...£200 (per hour...)

Sadly though Hannah isn't in the 2005 squad (as far as I understand).. :(