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Morning Fewbie Overlanding Drive - Al Dhaid Oasis to Dibba Al Hisn - Sharjah - 11 June 2023


Frederic

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On 6/7/2023 at 8:10 AM, Frederic said:

Good Morning All !

Confirmed for the drive:

@Rajesh NG@Daniel Rodas@Ben Lee@Frans M@Nadeem Ansari@Pavel Pashkovskiy@Tom V@Marketa Dobesova@Felix Obst@Pacific @Looper@Hisham Masaad

Waitlisted Attendees:

A few points to note about this drive and overlanding in general:

1. The concept of overlanding in UAE is about selecting a start and an endpoint, and to map out a route to get there. The emphasis is on avoiding tarmac as much as possible, but to use existing farm tracks and trails. While overlanding can in theory take hours, days, weeks, or months, the concept itself remains the same. In the winter time i am planning similar drives over longer distances that will involve camping.

2. The aim of this drive is to explore the beautiful scenery UAE has to offer, so bring your camera and try to make it an enjoyable morning without any pressure. Bring family members if you like as they will definitely enjoy it !

3. We will deflate to 25psi and not lower. The reason is we want to be able to cross tarmac parts at 50-70 km/h easily. On 25psi you will have a better traction and a bit of dampening which will help in the wadis. You don't need to put up your flag at the starting point. 

4. The plan is to end the drive at Dibba al Hisn beach I would love to have a group photo of all of us at the shoreline as it think it would be Carnity's first beach photo of a convoy ! (we will need to leave the cars at the parking).

5. It will be crucial to keep an eye on the car behind you and communicate well over the radio, as we will be driving a small part through the city and we don't want anyone to lose the convoy. Our sweep will have the planned route on his GPS as well. @Looper

6. You will be able to swap between 2H and 4H throughout the drive as per your convenience. Especially on the tarmac parts we recommend switching to 2H to avoid differentials damage. In the sandy parts and once we enter the mountains you will need to keep it in 4H of course.

See you all soon !

Really gutted to have to be pulling out of this one, summoned on duty at work. Hope there are more of these style drives in the future. Enjoy all. 

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3 minutes ago, Ben Lee said:

Really gutted to have to be pulling out of this one, summoned on duty at work. Hope there are more of these style drives in the future. Enjoy all. 

Sorry to hear that buddy. No worries we will have plenty more of these the coming months. 

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"Go as far as you can see; once you get there, you'll be able to see further."

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@Looper don't forget to charge Insta360 +bring extra batteries and memory cards 😄  This will look epic on video 👍

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CONVOY LIST

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@munkybizness@Rajesh NG@Ahmed Wagdy@DanielN@Richard Franks@Hisham Masaad@Frans M@Nadeem Ansari@Tom V@Marketa Dobesova@Pacific@Andrei S@Looper

This time it looks we have an FJ Cruiser Supervisor  @Hisham Masaad and a Jeep Supervisor @Looper :) 

Please don't forget to deflate to 25psi only, and not to 10-12psi like we usually do.

Offroad Flag is also not required this time.

We will be using Channel 2 - 446.031 Mhz for our comms.

See you all tomorrow morning !

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Looks like @Frederic sorted the participants by car model and posted the convoy list. All neatly arranged by the car model. For an person who has OCD for lists nothing can be more of a magnificent list than this. The best. 

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don't drive like its your last one.

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3 hours ago, Looper said:

Looks like @Frederic sorted the participants by car model and posted the convoy list. All neatly arranged by the car model. For an person who has OCD for lists nothing can be more of a magnificent list than this. The best. 

Yes but a few odd ones are in there too ! Perhaps we can convince him to sell their cars so it completely matches up 😜

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2 hours ago, Frederic said:

Yes but a few odd ones are in there too ! Perhaps we can convince him to sell their cars so it completely matches up 😜

Which Jeep model you planning for @Frederic ;) 😂

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