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17/1/2016 at 9:58pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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Welcome to the forum, Rob.
Can't help with which tent, but seeing as you cite it as the main reason, could you say exactly how much time you expect to save v a poled tent of the same size?
It still needs (ideally) to have a footprint down. It still needs to be carried from the car, and laid out on the footprint. It still needs to have the base pegged down, and once up, it still needs the guylines pegged.
On the assumption that you will be inflating with a manual pump, as compared to inserting poles, I'm not exactly sure where you envisage any time saving?
If you are as lucky as me, and can inflate using a powered pump (and can therefore make a start on setting up the cooker, or some other useful job whilst the tent inflates itself), you may just about scrape a 5 or 6 minute saving, at best, on an average sized family tent.
If you stand and do nothing, whilst the tent is inflated (powered), I reckon the saving would be somewhere around the 30 second mark, if at all. If you know how to thread poles, then the inflation is really no quicker, from my experience.
Admittedly, for me, using a powered pump, it is physically easier than threading and lifting poles, particularly with a heavy fly sheet. No idea what sort of effort is required with a manual pump, and how that would compare with threading and raising poles.
So easier yes, but not particularly quicker, imo.
I hope you find what you are looking for, and enjoy your inflatable as much as I do mine, but please don't get too excited about the time saved, as you may end up feeling let down (pun intended!)
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