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24/4/2013 at 12:18pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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I think it's all in the mindset, personally. These tents NEED the guys securing, so it's all part of the job.... even if it is a ba** ache!
Even for our weekend set up, we are looking at 30mins from opening the boot to get the footprint out, to having the tent stood up. another 15mins to straighten out and peg the base, then Muckerette goes in, and starts setting up, bedroom first, then living area, whilst I attack the guying out. Tarp next, and then the cooker set up and kettle on.
The best we have managed so far, all done and dusted, is about 2hrs 15mins. (An hour and 50mins for "winter mode".... no tarp and no cooker.)
It sounds a lot.... probably a hellof a lot, to some, but we take our time, and work at a comfortable, and stress free pace. We avoid the arguments you hear mention of in these forums, and we pretty much feel, once set up, that we are relaxed and happy, as opposed to knackered and stressed!
If that's what it takes, to have a wonderful weekend away, then so be it!
Of course, we could shave a lot off that time, but then we would be sleeping on the floor, with no carpet, and be eating off our knees! There's a price to pay for having the home from home touches, and it ain't all financial.
Each time we go, we shave another minute off (for instance, we now fill the food cupboard at home, before we go. Lift it straight out the car, plonk it in the tent, DONE! No setting up the cupboard, and emptying 3 or 4 carrier bags of Baileys and biscuits, so best part of ten mins saved there, alone!)
Back on the subject of guys.... I have seen, more than once, folk who don't bother to peg every guyline. A couple who come with us (in the summer!!) were into that (bad?) habit last year.
Personally, I'd rather spend that extra time guying it all out, and sleeping a little sounder in my bed at night.
As with a lot of things, it's each to their own, but I can't see tent manufacturers wasting their time and money on fitting guylines that aren't needed!
As with the ba**ache of lumping all the gear back upstairs when you get home.... or getting the tent back out to dry it off. It's all a part of the total sum.
Guy lines? Bring it on!!
Mucker
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