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22/8/2009 at 9:20am
Location: middle england
Outfit: Sold Motohome - Lichfield Creek 4 Tent
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Thanks for the replies Guys. I've owned several tents over the years, the nicest one I owned was an Astec Sala3, recently sold on eBay, my only gripe with that was having to thread the poles through long sleeves, I like the short sleeve and hook type system, as on the Royal. I don't feel that the Khyam pole system helps at all, it makes the tent heavy, vulnerable to ripping and difficult to pack away, in any case, I think pegging out the guy lines takes far more time and you need to put out all of the Freelander guys to make it stable even in a breeze. There's also that stupid door position, I can see the point of having a streamlined profile, flat fronts tend to billow inwards in a wind, but a door instead of the mesh side window would have been great. The groundsheet is a dead fit consequently rain tends to get under the tent side wall and run into the center of the sheet. I think that tent is way over priced. I'm sorry my first post turned out be be a grumble. I have a very good quality traditional 3 berth canvas Lamont alloy frame tent in my loft, if it wasn't so heavy I'd get that down and use it again.
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24/8/2009 at 7:35am
Location: middle england
Outfit: Sold Motohome - Lichfield Creek 4 Tent
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Hi Merry, Lamont used to be a French quality tent maker, I'm not sure if they're still in business. The canvas tent would be great if camping for 3+ nights, but I guess I'm still searching for the Holy Grail of camping, a tent which pitches and de-pitches itself...even puts itself back in the bag. The new Pop-up tents are getting close to it. I even bought one of those, a Quachua XL3, but the porch wasn't big enough to be useful, we used it once then sold it on eBay, you couldn't stand up in it either but pitching it, and de-pitching it, was easy peasy. I think someone should use the Pop-up scheme but in two halves, so's you could get a bigger tent, i.e., two,large Pop-up tents joined together, after pitching....any production designers out there?
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28/8/2009 at 3:02pm
Location: hants
Outfit: outwell khyam
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I had the same problem - I own a Khyam QE Highlander, which is fine for quick stays, but wanted something bigger for longer stays, something i could stand up in, but be able to put up on my own.
As i get on so well with my Highlander, I was planning to get the Freelander, but having heard all the problems encountered by people, decided against it. I plumped for the Outwell Nevada 3 (as mentioned in previous article). It did take me 30 mins to erect, but that was the first time and i did it on my own - a small 5'3" female, so consider that pretty good! I expect it to get faster as i get more used to it.
It's a great tent, btw and very pleased with the purchase!
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I've never seen the La Rochelle in the flesh, so I can't comment. However, the tent which many campers on this forum are recommending is the Outwell Nevada 3, which is currently on sale for £89 at Go Outdoors. I've seen one in their showroom & I was quite impressed. It would give you about the same size sleeping & living area as the Freelander, but apparently it's quick & easy to erect, plus it has a full sewn in groundsheet.
