A spec sheet tells you what's in a camper. It doesn't show you where the propane lives, how the wet bath closes off, or how the cooktop pops out. A walkaround does, and this one covers the Hudson Bay wet bath from the panels to the paper towel holder.
In this video, we were filmed by the team at Let's Go Outside at Overland Expo West 2026 in Flagstaff, Arizona. Arnold walks the outside of the Hudson Bay 8' flatbed pop-up with the wet bath floor plan, then takes you inside. It's a removable four-season camper with a 27" × 40" wet bath, a 130-liter Isotherm fridge and freezer, and full Truma heat and hot water, and it starts at $90,995.
Photos in this post are stills from the Let's Go Outside video.
Watch the Hudson Bay Wet Bath Walkaround
Arnold starts on the driver's side, works around the back, and finishes inside. Everything below follows the same order.
How to Spot the Wet Bath Version From Outside
You can tell this Hudson Bay has the wet bath before you open a door. The entry door sits further back on the wet bath version, because the bathroom takes the space in front of it. Arnold calls the fan on the side wall a dead giveaway too.
How the Hudson Bay Is Built
The walls are about 1-5/8 inches thick. Arnold breaks down the layers: gelcoat on both outside faces, honeycomb polypropylene next in on both sides, and about 1-1/4 inches of foam in the middle. Each panel is a full wet layup, held under vacuum on a table until the resin cures, with no adhesives in the panel itself. OEV makes its panels in the USA and builds the campers in Canada.
The corners use OEV's own 3 by 3 inch aluminum extrusions. Where wall meets wall, that's 9 square inches of bonded surface, and Arnold puts the force needed to break it at just under 4,200 lb for every inch of joint. OEV owns the dies, so nobody else can buy these parts off the shelf. If you want the full story on the panel, Built to Conquer: The OEV Story goes deeper.
Tough doesn't mean impossible to damage, so Arnold covers repairs too. Put a tree branch through the nose and any collision shop that handles fiberglass, or a boat shop, can fix it. Contact OEV and they'll send the correct resin, tinted to match, so you won't be able to tell where the repair was.
Outside Storage Built Into the Camper
The camper has its own outside storage compartment, and there's a lot of room in it. Arnold runs skis across it and says three sets fit with no issue. A 25-liter cooler goes in too, with space to spare. There's a plug inside for a portable induction cooktop if you carry one, plus an LED light so you can find things after dark.
Inside the Wet Bath
The wet bath is closed off with a soft-side enclosure made from the same coated, fire-rated canvas as the pop-up walls. The camper had been on display all weekend, so it had picked up some dirt. Arnold's fix: a little alcohol on a sponge, dabbed on, and it comes clean.
Inside, the toilet and shower share one 27" × 40" space with a window, an exhaust fan, and marine flooring. You pick your toilet: the Thetford cassette or the Trekker waterless toilet from Wrappon.
Arnold makes a point people miss. A wet bath isn't only for showers and the toilet. Owners use it as a drying room for wetsuits, ski boots, and wet gear, and that's where a wet bath really earns its space.
Arnold keeps it simple: the wet bath is the difference, and that's it. The galley is the same, and you can still add options like under-bed storage.
- The door moves back to make room for the bathroom, so the passenger side dinette seat is narrower. It still seats three and still folds down into a bed.
- Water and sleeping change too. The wet bath carries 20 gallons of fresh water and sleeps up to three. The dry bath carries 38 gallons and sleeps up to four.
The Galley and Dinette
Arnold says the 130-liter Isotherm fridge and freezer is new for 2026 on every OEV model. It's a drawer-style unit with a full fridge and a full freezer. The drawers are full pull and aluminum, like all of OEV's furniture, which is bonded in place for durability. The sink gets a J-handle faucet and a flush-mount glass top.
The standard cooktop is a two-burner propane unit. The camper at the show had the induction/propane option: one propane burner plus a single induction unit you can pop out and take outside or into the house. Arnold likes the redundancy. Run out of propane and you still have induction. Lose the inverter and you still have propane. Prefer all electric? There's a dual induction cooktop too. Both induction options need the 3000W inverter.
A few small details stood out:
- Flip-up counter extension. An optional 17" × 20" bamboo top for food prep or a change table. It sits away from the outlets on the front of the galley, so you can still plug things in.
- Upper galley cabinet. The option includes a spice rack about 20 inches long, a charging shelf sized to fit a CPAP machine, and an OEV paper towel holder that Arnold says won't unspool on rough roads.
- Gurney bunk. An optional removable bunk that pins in above the dinette. It keys in so the tubes can't shift side to side, and a kid can't knock it loose.
- A bottle opener. "Who doesn't need a bottle opener?"
Heat, Power, and Water
Every Hudson Bay gets the Truma AquaGo for hot water and the Truma Vario heater for cabin heat. Those are standard, not options.
People ask Arnold all the time how many batteries fit in the battery compartment. Battery tech keeps improving, and the most he's seen in one so far is 900 amp hours. The batteries themselves aren't included, so you size the bank to how you travel.
The propane cabinet is a washout-style compartment, the kind used in emergency services, so you can pressure wash it right out. It's vented at the top and bottom. Arnold says every camper OEV builds comes with an outside shower, and the fresh water fill locks.
Flagstaff was windy during the show, with flags whipping around the whole time. People asked whether the soft walls get noisy. Arnold says the wind hit 25 mph that Saturday and it stayed quiet inside. The walls didn't move.
In the video, Arnold mentions roof-mounted A/C, which was the option when this was filmed, and says rear wall A/C was coming for 2027. It's here now. On the 2027 Hudson Bay 8', the A/C option is a rear wall-mounted Zero Breeze unit with a heat pump.
The Rear Wall and the Aluma Tray
You can set up the back however you want. The spare tire carrier takes up to a 40-inch tire and has a lift point up top, so you can lower the tire off easily and raise it back up with a rope and pulley. There are also molle panels, ladders, and storage boxes. Add the optional OEV roof rack and you can carry a rod holder, surfboards, MaxTrax, or whatever your trips need.
This camper sat on an Aluma Tray, built by OEV's sister company under Lite Industries. It's full aluminum and fully isolated as standard, and it comes in multiple lengths, including the Aluma Tray 8' for an 8-foot bed like this one and the Aluma Tray 6.75' for a shorter one. Arnold shows the weatherproof rear drawer on 300 lb slides, which runs 72 inches on a Ford like this one and 36 inches on a Ram or Dodge because of the built-in fifth-wheel provisions. The tray is also set up for blind spot monitoring, backup sensors, and backup cameras.
Which Truck It Fits
The Hudson Bay is spec'd for factory 3/4-ton and one-ton trucks. The one in the video sits on an 8-foot bed. On a 6.5-foot bed, you'd go with the Hudson Bay 6.75', which uses a rear kick-out to fit the shorter base and still gives you the same 8-foot interior.
This walkaround shows the removable pop-up. OEV also builds the Hudson Bay as a removable hard side and as a chassis-mounted unit that's integrated to the truck. See all of the flatbed truck campers side by side if you're still deciding.
Hudson Bay or High Country?
If you want a wet bath on a flatbed, the other one to look at is the High Country flatbed pop-up. The Hudson Bay fits 3/4-ton and one-ton trucks. The High Country is spec'd for a Ford F-450/F-550 or Ram 4500/5500 and gives you a 9'6" wall-to-wall interior. Different trucks, different classes of camper. For a full side-by-side, read Hudson Bay wet bath vs High Country, and for more on this floor plan, see the Hudson Bay wet bath floor plan.
Price and Build
The Hudson Bay 8' flatbed pop-up starts at $90,995 with the wet bath and $87,348 with the dry bath. The wet bath needs a toilet, the Thetford cassette or the Trekker waterless, and your pick is added to the starting price.
Configure Your Hudson Bay
Pick your floor plan, toilet, cooktop, and rear wall setup, and see the price update as you go.
Built to Conquer. Built to Last.
Corner bonds that take about two tons per inch to break, a wet bath that doubles as a gear dryer, and a galley with a backup for its backup. That's the Hudson Bay wet bath in ten minutes. Thanks to the team at Let's Go Outside for filming it. Subscribe to their YouTube channel for more truck camper walkarounds. When you're ready, build yours in the configurator or talk to the OEV team.