Because we already knew that the weather could be bad (lesson learned from 3Y0Z and 3Y0I) we had taken the gear and split it into 4 steps. This had been communicated long time before we went, and is also displayed on our website with diagrams. Despite we had a lot of gear, we had wisely already planned for not being able to bring everything to the camp! The weight of equipment for Step 1 was 1500 kg + 300 liter of fuel. We did not plan to carry this into the camp, but install a gasoline driven WINCH system - all this explained on our facebook page: 3xK3 radios ( 13 kg), 2 amplifiers (30 kg), 2 antenna skibags (30 kg), 1 generator (108 kg), 2xtents (60 kg), winch system (200 kg) ++ you will see that when you go camping on the most remote island there is a lot of additional stuff you have to bring in addition to the radio gear.
What we ended up deploying at 3Y0J was a modified version of the step 1 to further reduce the weight so we were 110% sure to make it within the UNKNOWN duration of the upcoming WX window! We did not want to start transporting 1500 kg prior to an upcoming storm, just to find out we only managed to bring half of it onshore, with the rest of the equipment on the vessel or on the beach. We know that weather changes quickly at Bouvet. There is a lot of evaluations and decisions you have to make, and what seems easy on paper or in the comfort of you chairs at home, will soon be differently when you are at Bouvet and face the reality in cold conditions. The reality is strong wind and sometimes waves taller than yourself. Due to the thorough risk assessment we did end up on roughly 650 kg. So each person would have to carry 80 kg. We removed gear that we did not need, like the winch system, the tables and chairs. This was in spirit of our ancestors that also went to Bouvet, they did not either sit on a chair and have a table! This was absolutely no problem at all for us. We did not heat the tent either because it was really not needed