Bought this tent a couple of years ago and am very happy with it but not with the porches: the side one doesn't fit snugly so last year we bought the front one.
This did not come with any instructions but basically it has an elasticated 'tent end' which wraps around the end poles of the main tent and is then pegged into the ground to hold it in place. A few measly bits of velcro then attach the porch fabric to the same poles.
The end of the tent you attach the porch to is guyed with two double-pegged straps but, if you want to use the porch, these need to come down leaving this end of the tent tensioned by the porch and its elastic.
The problem comes when it gets windy - and boy was it windy on Anglesey last August! During the night the elastic flipped-off the end poles and the tent collapsed and I had to go out and try and put it all together again - a nigh on impossible task in the inclement weather conditions.
Is there any way I can improve the attachment of the porch to the main tent poles to prevent this happening, i.e. take the stress off the elastic that holds the porch in place? The porch is really useful for cooking etc. but, until I can think of a solution to this problem, I am reluctant to take it out of the bag....
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We use cling-ons and use extra guy ropes on our porches if we need to. They help hold it in place
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Hi
When we use the vestibule on the front of our kampa croyde we found that there there wasnt enough room to keep the guys at the right angle and the porch roof went saggy. We bought some tent clips ( the type that clip flysheet to tent poles) and use these to clip over the vestibule roof pole with guys attached we can now tension the front of the tent and the
clips help stop it blowing off
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Hi, we have the Gelert Corvus 6+2, we have the side porch which we've had very few problems with and we then invested in the front extension and I can fully understand what you mean. Having read about clingons on here I came up with the idea of attaching clingons to the extension and then attaching one of the elastic luggage straps which we stretched to the next pole on both sides which made it alot more stable, after much practice we've finally got to the stage where we've got the knack of attaching the extension elastic much better and guying in correct place which means we now don't have to have the tension straps down - although I do think if it got really, really windy we might put them down during the night.
I think you can see what I mean from this photo:
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I have been thinking about doing the following although I may give Tracey's idea a whirl:
I thought I would get a length of webbing and thread it through the existing sleeve where the elastic is at the moment, and then link this back to the previous pole. This is how the front canopies are attached on other makes. To this end I will need to clip this on and I have managed to source some clips and webbing on the web which look ideal - there is nothing like this in my local camping store.
The webbing in the porch is annoying and, even with this up on a windy night, the canopy still came adrift from the main body of the tent. So, having taken all your advice, I am going for both Tracey's idea with the clingons and the clips as suggested by Arsenaldes.
No doubt it will never be as windy again...
Tracey, with regard to the side porch, did the gap between the porch (curved) and the tent side (straight) not annoy you any?