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While rummaging in my parent's loft the other day, I found one of the tents they used to take me away on short breaks in - a Marechal Cyclomoteur 101 300. I fixed the perished rubber with bungee cord, and it is still waterproof after 37 years!

Excellent.

Its ust about the same colours of my first two man tent I have just dug out of our attic. Its a Raclet two man ridge tent with a small porch at the front. Same colour doors, flysheet and SIG. All the rubbers are just about gone but might try to fix it like you have done.

Cheers

Any ridge tent enthusiasts perhaps would enjoy having a peek at this...From BCT Bradford Yorks. Obviously copying the Dutch tents

....... http://bctoutdoors.rtrk.co.uk/?scid=76513&kw=8594611&pub_cr_id=10697238860

Bordercaz, It must be about 5 foot 4 at the apex - outside. I don't know if it is like yours, but there are spacer poles which raise the ridge pole & fly above the inner tent by about 4 inches. (The design is a light canvas inner with a SIG, and a heavy canvas front, and the fly is waterproofed nylon.)

It has now been up in the garden all week (kids love it and I didn't have the heart to take it down), in some torrential rain with only some slight seepage coming through the eyelets in the fly.

I remember my folks had 2 of these which they would put face to face about 5 foot apart with a tarp covering the join - a do-it-yourself vis-a-vis tent!

Quote: Originally posted by OldRex on 27/6/2012

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Bordercaz, It must be about 5 foot 4 at the apex - outside. I don't know if it is like yours, but there are spacer poles which raise the ridge pole & fly above the inner tent by about 4 inches. (The design is a light canvas inner with a SIG, and a heavy canvas front, and the fly is waterproofed nylon.)

It has now been up in the garden all week (kids love it and I didn't have the heart to take it down), in some torrential rain with only some slight seepage coming through the eyelets in the fly.

I remember my folks had 2 of these which they would put face to face about 5 foot apart with a tarp covering the join - a do-it-yourself vis-a-vis tent!

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