Morocco March 2016

mikescuba · Oct 1, 2014

Tente 2 seconds EASY 2 vert QUECHUA - Tente Randonnée, Camping - Decathlon
The above is what I went for. Only €50, fits on a 110 roof rack. Can be put up in a couple of seconds and folded away in about 10 seconds. Takes hardly any room. Can be used on the roof or on the ground. A proper roof tent is quiet expensive. Has to be fitted. uses more load space. Has to be dismantled when you finished your trip. I don't think they are worth all that money. I found the above worked very well.

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mikescuba · Oct 1, 2014

james6546 said:
So I have on my list to sort out before I go:

Tent
Water Carriers
Racking
Shovel
Inverter
Dual battery setup
Fridge
Hi Lift mount
Spare wheel carrier
CB
Spare Parts
Steering guard

probably a bunch more stuff.

Table & Chairs.
Cooker
Mattress of some sort & Sleeping bag.
Cooking utensils.
BOTTLE OPENER
Drinking water.
lighting
Tool kit
First aid kit.
Photo copies of vehicle registration and passport details to hand in at check points.
Navigation, maps.
Jerry cans for fuel.
Just to name but a few of the top of my head.

OLDUN · Oct 1, 2014

Plenty of toilet rolls!!.

MrNasty · Oct 1, 2014

Can never have enough bog roll.

mikescuba · Oct 1, 2014

Especially when you let it fly out the window like a long streamer across the desert. Could have been a new script for a Andrex advert. Not mentioning any names here, but he drove a white 110 and it was the old fellow.

james6546 · Oct 1, 2014

Haha, thanks for the hints and list.

The one I made was mostly stuff I need to get.

Wouldn't fit a roof tent on my 90!

I saw some roof tents at the lro show, and they are pretty nice bits of kit. Also been watching a series about some Americans exploring Canada and their setup looks awesome.

Got the gearbox off on my 90 engine, so should make some progress this weekend

MrNasty · Oct 1, 2014

james6546 said:
Haha, thanks for the hints and list.

The one I made was mostly stuff I need to get.

Wouldn't fit a roof tent on my 90!

I saw some roof tents at the lro show, and they are pretty nice bits of kit. Also been watching a series about some Americans exploring Canada and their setup looks awesome.

Got the gearbox off on my 90 engine, so should make some progress this weekend

New AP clutch and DMF for me Saturday too. Phase one underway.

SpaceDawg · Oct 2, 2014

MrNasty,

Why the Espri, I had one in the 80's a S3 red and white, what a terrible car, went like stink, held the road, but a nightmare.

Mind you it did have the same door handles as my Disco though.

SpaceDawg · Oct 2, 2014

3extruckers said:
Chairs.

Awning, use it every day.

james6546 · Oct 2, 2014

SpaceDawg said:
MrNasty,

Why the Espri, I had one in the 80's a S3 red and white, what a terrible car, went like stink, held the road, but a nightmare.

Mind you it did have the same door handles as my Disco though.

My grandad used to have Esprits. Loved them.

3extruckers · Oct 2, 2014

Said awning... was used loads during the trip :5bcheers2:

3extruckers · Oct 2, 2014

You'll also want a good tyre compressor.
The t-max dual jobbies are pretty good, think Spacedawg had one. Mine wasn't too bad but they get bloody hot airing up 4 big tyres.

james6546 · Oct 2, 2014

3extruckers said:
You'll also want a good tyre compressor.
The t-max dual jobbies are pretty good, think Spacedawg had one. Mine wasn't too bad but they get bloody hot airing up 4 big tyres.

Ok, any that aren't hundreds of pounds?!

I normally just use my Mazda one that came with my car which is pretty good, but I'm guessing wouldn't be up to the job...

fanatic · Oct 2, 2014

james6546 said:
Ok, any that aren't hundreds of pounds?!

I normally just use my Mazda one that came with my car which is pretty good, but I'm guessing wouldn't be up to the job...

Tmaxx adventure hd less than £100

james6546 · Oct 2, 2014

fanatic said:
Tmaxx adventure hd less than £100

Ok, thanks. Will have a look

3extruckers · Oct 2, 2014

I got one of these
but i'm going to get one of these

james6546 · Oct 2, 2014

3extruckers said:
I got one of these
but i'm going to get one of these

Looks good actually

james6546 · Oct 2, 2014

So what are we thinking for navigation?

I'm going to plumb my tablet in, so will test out some apps, what do we need to be able to do?

mikescuba · Oct 2, 2014

james6546 said:
So what are we thinking for navigation?

I'm going to plumb my tablet in, so will test out some apps, what do we need to be able to do?

This is something I'm trying to work on at the moment. Last trip I just coasted along with the others. I did have a map to look the part. The next trip I would like to go through the Atlas mountains down to Agadir then onto the beach down the Plage Blanch. Should be easier to navigate as we just keep the sea to out right going down and left coming back. I'm trying looking into MapSourse and BaseCamp mapping. Not making much headway at the moment.
I can't rely on my mate for much help. When we got of the ferry in Spain on the way back it took him almost five minutes before he realised he was still looking at the map of Morocco and was wandering why he couldn't find Malaga.

3extruckers · Oct 2, 2014

So, lots of options for mapping. Depends on what tablet you're taking. Obviously you need to download the maps before you go.
I used OpenStreetMaps on my pokey HTC desire, downloaded detailed map of morocco on the friday morning before we left.
It has user contributed roads and tracks, even those over the moountain roads that just looked like mars.
The android app osmand, free version too, is what i used. you can download 10 maps for free i think.
I also had my panasonic toughbook with linux Mint and Navit on it, but for some reason if failed to load :/
Sharing GPS from my trusty desire let me pair it with the laptop, althoug the laptop had built-in GPS it too failed to initialize; Working on this now.

Hand held sat nav's are ok for major and some minor roads, but even the paper michellin map we had didn't have many of the minor roads on them, even in built up areas.
The olaf maps or waypoint or whatever they are, seem to work with specific garman maps n stuff. Never really bothered much with them.
Next time, i'll be using OSM with a **** load of POI's and waypoints loaded on them, spare BT GPS unit just in case and a copy of oamand on my desire

Sync this up with a eyefi card in the camera and plot your pics on google earth, when you get back, along with the route. Laptop will be recording route positions as we drive.
While i'm on a geeky rant, if you have a BT OBD reader, you could log all engine stats at same time too... How sad is that!.....

Now, where's my OBD reader......:der:

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