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Hi Guys,

Our Coleman sahara was all steel poles, it was pegged down with rock pegs and double pegged, we lost it at Shell Island at the weekend along with our day room which is also rigid steel - WIND IS A KILLER if you ask me whatever your rig.  Heres to camping in the sunshine!!!

We left early Sat morn before the winds really hit and it was still sunny. We were up in Derby and left early Friday morning for camp and there were plenty of weather news about strong winds especially for the south. Even if there isn't a warning, it does list the winds and gusts and even up in Derby, it listed the gusts up to 50mph. So we knew well in advanced what was to come if we stayed.

It's upsetting to see how many actually stayed and put themselves, children and others at risk. It's not worth it and now look at the number of damaged tents. It frustrates me even more that Shell Island was still taking people in during all this and in that news report they say they didn't know, that's a bunch of bull!

I hope I haven't upset anybody but always, always double check the weather, it's there.

Pegging on sand or sandy soil is always a bit of a nightmare, not to mention impossible in some circumstances. Pegged on sandy soil with high winds? Argh. Tents need anchored down in some way, and even Deltas won't hold in very loose dry soil. (Very good for soft clay...that's different.) Though I belive Rob has a new Delta in production, for sand?

So on sand/sandy soil, I don't think it would matter if your poles were made of NASA grade titanium, if the wind could still pick the tent up.

Quote: Originally posted by merrycat on 27/5/2008

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Hi Guys,

Our Coleman sahara was all steel poles, it was pegged down with rock pegs and double pegged, we lost it at Shell Island at the weekend along with our day room which is also rigid steel - WIND IS A KILLER if you ask me whatever your rig.  Heres to camping in the sunshine!!!

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Safeway, strange you should say that about the Sahara......when we were at the tent show in Feb, Coleman had a polycotton tent and it was called the Sahara. It was only £225 and when we got home, we tried to find it and couldn't. It wasn't on any of the colemans websites or even the catalog that we got at the show. We were going to buy it but thought twice after having a hard time finding information on it.

Maybe it was just those being sold and that's it. Yeoman's were the ones offering and it wasn't even on their web site either. Found it a bit strange.

The only Sahara we found was the older version like yours.

Well I'm going to be extremely unpopular (as normal) but I blame the modern so called tents and people who don't bother to learn about camping properly.

 If you bought a good make of tent designed to with stand british weather which had instructions not just on pitching a tent but how to prepare a tent for stormy conditions  and different pitching conditions half of this W/E disasters would not have happened