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Hi

I have just bought a second hand cabanon 6 berth frame tent, it's my first frame tent and it only has 6 guy ropes, which dosn't seem very many as we are used to our trusty dome tent which has loads of guy ropes.

How many do you have?

Should I add more?

Should I double peg?  If so how do I do that?

I don't won't to blow away in the night!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frame tents mostly peg down through the elastic loops at the bottom of the canvas. The corner guys are mostly there to prevent the frame swaying rather than to strengthen and support the poles as in a fibreglass pole tent.

The weight of the canvas helps hold the flysheet down as well. Modern flysheets are like kites compared to the old canvas ones, as you`ll realise when you first try folding a canvas one up. And sometimes there are internal ties to hold the flysheet onto the frame.

It never hurts to be prepared, of course. Take a few spare guylines complete with sliders just in case you do encounter a bad storm. Double guy it (two guys at each attachment point) if the tent is swaying a lot. Double peg by using two pegs, crossed at a slight angle just under the ground. Make sure you use decent pegs, of course...we have a set of massive V-profile pegs for our trailer tent, relics of a long dead TT of my SILs. Plus some big twelve inch skewers for the guylines, though Delta pegs would be good too.

Our frame tent's only got 4 guy ropes, but never had a problem with it lifting or trying to blow away even during a couple of thunder storms with high winds, so don't worry too much about it.

Do make sure that you tie the internal tapes which hold the canvas to the frame in the corners though.