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Topic: Legend of the (norfolk) lake

martinjp65

18/5/2013 at 7:28pm
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We have owned our Outwell Norfolk lake since 2009 and have been very pleased with it after this last trip though it deserves the "Canvas V.C." we have just returned from a week in St Ives and it has been a typical mix weather week (Sunny for the Queens visit on Friday!!)HOWEVER Tuesday was HORRENDOUS worst conditions we have ever been camping in, our pitch had a distant sea view and we copped EVERYTHING the weather could throw at us winds of up to 70M.P.H. were recorded at RAF St Mawgan and driving rain, I beefed-up the front guys with 2 ratchet tie downs securing the front poles direct to sturdy shrubs forming the pitch boundary and 4 extra guy lines, the rain did defeat the poly cotton on the front however nothing could have really stopped it under those conditions it even tore a Delta out of the ground although all the rest held firm as did that one when I re-secured it,very tense night hoping we would get through it with no damage but she held firm bless her!!

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DamianL

18/5/2013 at 7:32pm
Location: Derby
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Sounds like a bloody good tent!

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moonstone

18/5/2013 at 8:08pm
Location: Greater London
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our next trip is to Cornwall in a week or so's time...i think we will be looking for a decent stand of trees to plonk between ourselves and the gentle sea "breeze"...

glad to hear you survived the ordeal...

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Shellipoos

18/5/2013 at 8:13pm
Location: South Lanarkshire
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With our summer being so unpredictable and winters being so long. I laughed at a well pitched, well made tent getting it's own back !!

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RTS5

18/5/2013 at 9:01pm
Location: North Wiltshire
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Let's here it for the SS Norfolk Lake and all whom sail in her

Glad you and the tent survived.

purplebean

18/5/2013 at 9:45pm
Location: West Yorkshire
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I am pleased to hear it stood up to the weather. I own a NL which has not been used yet as we can't fit it and the other stuff in the car and currently would struggle to dry it. One day soon I will invest in a trailer, hubby is going to grass a big enough area for drying and then we will make the switch to our NL which I fell in love with the first item I ever saw one

jelboy53

19/5/2013 at 8:08am
Location: Cumbernauld Scotland
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Good post Martinjp65...

Always good to hear how a tent (and it's occupants)stood up to adverse weather...

I have camped twice(two different tents) in howling gales

1)....Hi gear Gobi 4 Loved that wee tent...Spent a night in it..Bum pitched to the wind with the back end billowing inwards and the whole thing shaking like the end of the world had come...Never faltered...all guys etc there in the morning where I had put them...Totally undamaged...

2)... Vango Icarus 500 with enclosed extension...Wind hitting the side of the mountains and rushing into the glen (Glencoe) from all directions buffeting the tent constantly....Looked up from the fire to see the extension rising into the air..One or two pegs had worked loose...wind got under it and snapped a pole section... Took the extension down.... checked the pegs and guys on the main tent....Stood firm for the next day and a half of buffeting...Never moved day or night...

Luck played it's part on those two occasions I can tell you...........

Jelboy.

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martinjp65

19/5/2013 at 8:41pm
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Thanks one and all,Hey Purplebean some Norfolk tips from a veteran, the pole clamps (as supplied, shame on Outwell)for the horizontal bracing poles are cheap N weak thumbscrew saddles, junk them both and get a pair of 22MM "dorema" awning pole clamps these are brilliant,fit like they were made for the job and secure with a simple press of a lever I cannot recommend them highly enough,Deltas for the guylines,and some caravan type awning pegs to secure the front or side doors if we have enough fine weather to use them as a canopy(!) a wipe with "3in1 oil (they do one which is not harmful to plastics) over the poles will stop corrosion and keep the joints smooth. All in all its a great piece of kit.I have actually started putting both the bags on the roof bars of our Focus secured with ratchet straps (will have muscles like Arnie soon!)and it has worked really well so far.

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