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Why GFC TurboNap Is The Best Wedge Camper Mattress

August 09, 2024 3 min read

Why GFC TurboNap Is The Best Wedge Camper Mattress

 

Sleep comfortably outdoors. You’d think that would be a lot easier than it turns out to be, right? Fortunately, we have the solution. Let’s look at what makes TurboNap so good.

Dual Density Foam

To create TurboNap, GFC’s 13-strong team of engineers embarked on a two-year long journey to learn everything they could about foam. It turns out this stuff is not all created equally. Obvious features like compression resistance must be balanced with more obscure stuff like edge support and bounce (GFC is firmly committed to supporting sleep-adjacent activities in the outdoors).

What we settled on was a dual-density open cell foam arrangement. Versus memory foam and other types, this stuff doesn’t grow stiff in cold weather, and the dual densities allow us to combine cushion with support.

The top layer, closest to your body, is made from a softer foam that’s two inches thick. This conforms to your body (but not in the suffocating way some memory foams can) and conforms to your curves, even if you’re a boney side sleeper. The firmer one-inch base then provides support, and prevents your knees or elbows from pushing all the way in to the composite flooring, even when you’re on all fours.

Unlike that cheap mattress you ordered on Amazon for your guest room, it also remains entirely flat, edge-to-edge, with square corners. This maximizes your sleep area and makes the gaps between the different panels seamless.

Stretchy, Breathable Cover

Just like your favorite pair of merino wool base layers, TurboNap’s mattress cover is stretchy, breathable, and moisture wicking. Unlike that merino, this nylon-spandex material is machine washable. Those features combine with the breathable nature of our proprietary foam to keep you cool and dry while you sleep. The stretch also works with the foam to conform to your body’s shape and movement without feeling constricting.

Dog owner? This material sheds fur as well as bamboo.

Thicc, But Not Too Thick

When we first developed the GoFastCamper, a ton of effort was put into making the tent portion as slim as possible. This is what allows non-lifted trucks to still fit in a standard height residential garages or multi-story parking structures, and minimizes impacts to fuel economy and wind noise.

The downside is that, unlike a traditional pop-up camper, there’s not a ton of wasted volume inside when the GFC is closed.

You can easily close the camper with TurboNap inside, without spending extra minutes pushing the tent fabric into too-thick foam.

Versus four-inch-thick alternatives, the three-inch TurboNap leaves an extra inch of vertical space, which you can use to accommodate your Aeronaut Hoverquilt, inflatable pillows, or other ultralight bedding. And we do that with more comfort than those four-inch mattresses, promise.

Transforms With Your Floor

GFC’s Transform-A-Floor is what turns this whole endeavor from a rooftop tent-on-a-frame into an actual camper. Using solutions that don’t seamlessly integrate with it makes it difficult to move the floor panels around, and decreases useable interior volume when you do eventually get those panels where you want them.

TurboNap was designed from the beginning to fit those panels perfectly, enabling you to switch from a fully-enclosed sleeping area that keeps bugs out and bedding in, to an eight-foot tall hangout area, to bunk mode, to a standing heigh desk simply and intuitively.

Catches Your Bedding

TurboNap orders now include GFC’s new bedding catch covers for free (a $200 value). These stretchy mesh panels attach with G-hooks to the bottom of the square Transform-A-Floor panels, giving you a versatile space to stuff clothing, bedding, or anything else you want to move out of the sleep area and into the truck bed, without dropping it all the way down.

It Lasts

All-foam competitors from the brands you’re thinking of have degradation issues where the foam chunks and turns to dust after less than two years of exposure to sleeping humans and changing weather conditions. Inflatable alternatives spring leaks. You won’t have either problem with TurboNap. Nor will you have to spend time or waste storage space moving a mattress upstairs when you setup the camper, or blowing one up while you could be downing a cold one.

And It’s On-Sale

Until 9/18, you can get $50 off any TurboNap order. That includes the tech fabric covers and bedding catches. Sized for a 50-inch-wide camper or RTT, TurboNap is currently $649. 56-inch wide campers (those made for full-size trucks), are $699.


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