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Subject Topic: Tent to withstand the wind?
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Personianork
27/5/2008 at 5:15pm
 Location: Orkney
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No easy answer it's probably not just about the tent.

It's also about our pitching technique.
Correct use of pegs, guy lines, and position of tent in relation to the wind.

What I can say here in Orkney( where the weather was superb over the weekend and the wind virtually calm) we often have gales/severe gales on a fairly often( particularly in winter) basis and both my smaller tents, the Vango Tempest 200, and the Coleman Adrenaline 3, survived the very worst of the weather on a couple of occasions in the winter.

On a balance I think a good small tent will do better than a good big tent,when the bad weather turns up.


PersonLynne+Steve
27/5/2008 at 7:38pm
 Location: Dorset
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We spent the w/e in our Sunncamp Evolution 400 and it stood up to the weather brilliantly. Maybe it's the shape but it really didn't move too much considering how much wind there was, it didn't leak either. We were very impressed. We did double check all the pegs and guy ropes early on Saturday evening though. There was also a Montana 6 on the same site and it still looked fine on Sunday morning as well.

Lynne


Personrexgrant
27/5/2008 at 7:53pm
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Quote: Originally posted by SGEO on 27/5/2008

Hi a friend of mine who is a warden on a campsite which is known to ruin a few tents with high winds the weekend thats just been they clocked 85mph gusts
Hi SGEO.
How does this warden check is wind speeds as any wind speed between 73 and 84 MPH is classed as an full blown hurricane.?
Regards
Rex.


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PersonMinnie1
27/5/2008 at 7:56pm
 Location: Kent
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 I have to agree with some of the others that Outwell are very strong tents. Used to have a montana 6 which kept us dry in torrential rain and gale winds. We once camped in a Hartford Xl in the worst weather ever. (when we arrived the wardens asked us if we were sure we wanted to stay!) Puttin it up was hard as it kept taking off before we could get the pegs in. The tent kept us warm and dry but the noise from the wind kept us awake all night. The kids however, slept through the whole night! Should  have taken earplugs and would have been fine.


PersonSGEO
27/5/2008 at 10:35pm
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Quote: Originally posted by rexgrant on 27/5/2008
Quote: Originally posted by SGEO on 27/5/2008

Hi a friend of mine who is a warden on a campsite which is known to ruin a few tents with high winds the weekend thats just been they clocked 85mph gusts
Hi SGEO.
How does this warden check is wind speeds as any wind speed between 73 and 84 MPH is classed as an full blown hurricane.?
Regards
Rex.

On a boat which had clocked 75knots -85mph or category 1 hurricane


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Personsan321
28/5/2008 at 1:06am
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The only tent to survive untouched on our site was the bear lake but it was a nightmare to put up-so I believe but it was strong as houses compared to all the others that collapsed.  Our vermont suffered damage and had to come down. 


Persongingerdadgos
28/5/2008 at 7:44am
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I would suggest a Wild Country Homestead or a Outwell Bear Lake.

We have just camped at a site in yorkshire. two sunn camp tunnel tents broke, a outwell minasota 4, 2 larger outwells also went.

two very large vangos survied and a kyham.... if thats any help.

We ended up trying to repitch a number of other peoples tents who went out for the day. leaving front porches up, little pegs. its a wonder more didn't go.

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PersonAtherwitzend
28/5/2008 at 9:52am
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Quote: Originally posted by Lynne+Steve on 27/5/2008
We spent the w/e in our Sunncamp Evolution 400 and it stood up to the weather brilliantly. Maybe it's the shape but it really didn't move too much considering how much wind there was, it didn't leak either. We were very impressed. We did double check all the pegs and guy ropes early on Saturday evening though. There was also a Montana 6 on the same site and it still looked fine on Sunday morning as well.

Lynne
We recently bought an Evo 400 as a weekend tent.  Have only used it once and that was in glorious weather a couple of weekends back.  However when we went looking at tents, it was windy day and the Evo seemed to be coping a lot better than some others (even though it looked as if it had been pitched by my 6 year old) which was why we purcahsed that particular model.


PersonAtherwitzend
28/5/2008 at 9:58am
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Quote: Originally posted by san321 on 28/5/2008
The only tent to survive untouched on our site was the bear lake but it was a nightmare to put up-so I believe but it was strong as houses  
We have erected ours twice now and it does take some time to get it up, never timed, but in excess of an hour both times.  But once up it really does feel strong.  We did have some wind on Sunday afternoon (although nothing compared to many of you I appreciate) and it stood up really well.


PersonMamaBear
28/5/2008 at 10:05am
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Well, I feel better about my Bear Lake 6 now!



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