set up time was much better (forgot to time it) but would say if pushed we had the tent up in about 30 min (myself and teanage daughter) but then proberbly spent another 30 min tweeking poles and guylines to get the flysheet nice and taught.
would of proberbly pitched it with the flysheet a little looser if there had been any chance of rain as i believe it may result in slight shrinkage but please correct me if im wrong...
the poles did snag quite a lot when pushing through the flysheet sleeves due to the spring loaded locking thingies (not sure of right name so found a picture on google) sticking out quite far
so if anyone has a solution to this ?? i have thought of wrapping a little insulation tape over them but this would proberbly be quite a faff.....
we tryed cross pitching it from the middle out, which worked better than putting all the poles in then walking it out that we did last time.
next time i will proberbly try cross pitching from the front to the back...
im thinking if i put the front canopy pole in first and guy it out to keep upright i may be able to solo pich the whole tent ??
has anyone any experience of solo pitching large family polycotton tunnel tents or is this biting off more than i can chew and best not to try ??
im well happy with the Familia 6 to me its on a par with the outwell wolf lake 7 for quality. but in my eyes slightly better and a lot cheaper as we only need 6 birth and the canopy is 2m deep not the 1.3m of the wolf and for useability thats a huge difference we had a large table six chairs and full kitchen in it and wernt overly cramped, add to that we had the front flyscreen on aswell bliss 
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Topic: Obelink Familia 6
