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Quote: Originally posted by spudz on 14/4/2009

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Off camping in my Esvo.

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So are we tomorrow :)

Angie

Unfortunately the instructions are in Dutch - so its nice to know the Dutch aren't quite perfect !!

Took it out of the bags last night and had a quick look - the general workmanship looks first rate and the canvas quality seems to be spot on  - very excited and cant wait for our week off in early June to test it out for a couple of nights.

Then its off to Royan for 3 weeks in the summer school holidays.

Have realised that we probably wont get time to put it up this weekend but when we do I will post some pics.

Matt

Hi spudz

Didn't get a chance to put it up last weekend - hopefully will have a spare few hours this coming Sunday !

Matt

We have an Esvo Baars which I love with a passion.  Two years of truly hard camping haven't left a mark on her, she remains utterly waterproof and was the reason we survived five weeks camping last summer (not a single dry day as I recall!).  I bought mine direct from Esvo and got a good discount for travelling to the Netherlands but it still cost about 1300 euros but that included various extras.  It's made from 300 count Ten Cate and the stitch quality is superb.  The only difference in quality over time compared to my friend's De Waard seems to be peg quality.  It's significantly better than the Cabanon it replaced.

Putting up the tent was something of a brain burner as my Dutch is not so hot, but with help from a native speaker I sorted it out and I can now get the tent up in under 30 mins.  The trick on mine is to put the door poles in position first then hoist up the main pole although yours may be different ..... 

The only problem so far as I've been able to ascertain is that there will always be one family of Dutch campers on any one site who will be intrigued that you're English with a classic Dutch tent and then point out that your guylines or pegs are not correctly positioned.  You could be very lucky as I was last year, when the males from the family spent a happy hour repositioning mine whilst his wife and I enjoyed a glass of wine with our daughters!