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hi

if you dont have a canopy or a porch on your tent what do you do?

do you do without or make/buy something or buy onr for another tent and make it fit ?

Depends what you want it for.. sitting under? Cooking?

For me, the most versatile option is a tarp.

If just for cooking then a utility tent would do the job nicely.

Angie

i thought about the Sahara canopy but the staff at go outdoors said no it wouldnt do.

So possibly that but not attached to tent. you know sort of like a gazebo but it matches. as long as i can fit table unter it if it rains or cook under it if i need to.

Voyager 6 doesnt have anything also. Mojave 5 is alot like it (my bro has that one)

We have a canopied windbreak to - worth its weight in gold.

Bit like this

Linny

Quote: Originally posted by linny2008 on 10/8/2010

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We have a canopied windbreak to - worth its weight in gold.

Bit like this

Linny

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How much?

Less than €36 here

Angie

We have the Vango Adventure Tarp and use it on the front of all our tents - the small overnight tent right up to our 4.45m wide Vango Columbia 600. The elasticated side of the tarp is 2.9m if I remember correctly, and it extends out 2m at the centre. Combine with longer guyropes and the tent's porch poles and it will do many tents that have a front hoop for the elasticated side to sit behind. There is a picture of it in action on our Kampa Bude 4 in the tent review section. I have a photo on the camera of it being used with the Columbia but haven't downloaded it yet.

With a tarp you can offset it to provide more cover from the direction of the weather. With a small tent it will obviously comes down the sides more than a large tent, but we had a lovely BBQ in the rain last week using it and the big tent...

Helen

In the dim and distant past before add-on porches and canopies came out for synthetic tents...about four or five years ago, that is....we either used tarps or didn't use anything. We cooked outside or the really posh folk bought kitchen tents. But really, a tarp, two sets of king poles and some extra guylines, sliders and pegs will make you a really efficient shelter.

we use quechua tarp on  the vango nile 600

Reqards the Mojave 5 aabove we have a Litchfield Sun Canopy http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lichfield-Large-Tent-Canopy/dp/B0038ONESK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=sports&qid=1275334508&sr=8-1

Fits pretty good. We where on a site last week and a fellow camper enqired where we got it and said he was having one when he got home for his Mojave.

    Cheers,  Paul