1st – thank you to all that have contributed to this knowledge base – without people willing to freely share their ideas, poor unimaginative souls such as myself would be lost to the winds of design despair. I hope that I to can contribute to this great resource in some way and thus give back for some of what I have gleaned here. Again, thank you.
I joined this site a few yrs back but never got around to building. My new jump last year into Powered Paragliding(PPG) has me needing a small camper. I was lugging my med size Roo 233 hybrid with my Pathfinder last year but the gas was killing the wallet. Better results with my Kia Soul pulling my bothers Boler.
The Boler was nice enough but I wanted something a little more to my needs(and my bother lives a couple hrs away) that would carry my PPG motor without taking apart its cage, carry some other stuff and room to sleep. Did not want it to be too claustrophobic but keep it small like the Boler.
I looked at Foamies, then aluminum framing as I am more skilled with metal working – then looked at aluminum prices – then thought about all plywood, looked at plywood weight and went back to Foamies.
So final plan is to make a foamie and build steel trailer to fit. One of the best ideas I found in my research was a separate trailer. The Fart Catcher will be detachable. Mostly as I don’t want allot of ?’s from the registration office about it so K.I.S.S it during registration and put the camper on it after the fact. And I want to have a separate utility trailer for small this and that jobs.
There are a lot of great designs here. I fell in love with the Nano Weekender when I 1st saw it, just appealed to my eye. But I needed a little more space.
I will post more soon - need to figure out how to load images
Cheers, Patrick