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Subject Topic: What tent is best in stormy weather?
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30/5/2007 at 2:09pm
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 Frame tent with canvas the only type of tent (erected properly) that will stand almost anything you throw at it especially if its a Cabanon or older type relum. Its fine for people to keep on about posistioning into wind (hello wind changes direction) the most you can do is look for a sheltered pitch. I have been through force 8 and force 9 storms and the year diana died force 10 in St Ives not comfortable but all survived and all frame tents   


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30/5/2007 at 2:36pm
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Have to say i've only used my tent once but the weather was very wet & very windy. Lots of tents bit the big one but walking round the site there was not one single outwell montana budged...... there again I would say that!!!! lol!

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30/5/2007 at 8:15pm
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Hi there, we have an old Khyam Ridgidome which always stood up to awful weather really well and a colleague was camping this week with a modern Khyam and he said it was fine.

I agree that frame tents are very good too - we had a huge green canvas tent that we used for years and once it stayed up while everyone else on the site was blowing away.

We've got a tunnel tent now - glad I wasn't away in it this weekend!



30/5/2007 at 8:33pm
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The B&B is fantastic in storms. Seriously, a frame tent with the capacity to take extra guyropes (I pack four very heavy ropes and pegs) can be braced for just about anything.  The other tents which will survive use the least resistance principle - mountain survival types - but they would not be my choice for "normal" camping unless it was life or death.  I like to get dressed standing up!

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31/5/2007 at 1:55pm
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We have an old vango equinox TBS with internal tension bands that can be tightened in windy weather. Haven't used it for a while, but I seem to remember it being OK in breezy weather. Does anyone else have something similar, and has it stood up to the wind well?

Will be investing in delta ground anchors soon, though.


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01/6/2007 at 9:08pm
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We have used a Sunncamp Palace over the weekend - Sunday was horrendous, and whilst I was a nervous wreck in case the tent picked up and flew off, it withstood the gales and rain very well. the canvas was shaking a bit, and the wind got under the groundsheet a bit but it stayed in one piece!


02/6/2007 at 1:56am
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Quote: Originally posted by Fudge59 on 31/5/2007


We have an old vango equinox TBS with internal tension bands that can be tightened in windy weather. Haven't used it for a while, but I seem to remember it being OK in breezy weather. Does anyone else have something similar, and has it stood up to the wind well?

Will be investing in delta ground anchors soon, though.

We are really in a different league with this type of tent, it is more of a mountain/expedition tent than a family tent, and at £330.00 SRP I would expect a small four man crawl in tent to perform well in a breeze

I think the old school Vango force ten held down with delta pegs would be the mutts, but as I said I now need walk in comfort or the other half might cut off my camping trips    

 



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02/6/2007 at 7:53am
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Quote: Originally posted by force ten on 02/6/2007
I think the old school Vango force ten held down with delta pegs would be the mutts.


I think you`re right. Hubby and I have been holding a low level wrangle for a while now as to whether his old Force 10 or my Vango Odyssey (geodisic mountain rated 3-man tent, but about thirty years younger!)would stand up better in extreme conditions. I don`t like to admit it, but it would quite possibly be the Force 10! The Oddyssey would be far more comfortable for a couple, though.


02/6/2007 at 9:57pm
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our vermont didnt do to bad and it didnt leak



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