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Quote: Originally posted by loydall on 03/5/2023

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Thanks - I'm still not 100% sure if we'll go for one. We've just got rid of a small ESVO tent which was probably 20+ years old when we bought it and it was still going strong when it sold. We need something bigger than that (but not as big as our main tent, a De Waard Vergote Zilvermeeuw which is a monster). My thought now is to go for a canvas tent, maybe a Randstad Bunzing or Cabanon Barbados which I've seen for sale used. I think those are relatively safe bets buying used/old.

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Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 04/4/2024

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A bit of a delay with my reply to this post, so apologies for that.

The Biscaya 370 was the only Biscaya in the range that came in 3 canvas types.

Rip Stop Nylon.

All Season Polyester.

Heavy Cotton Canvas.

Interestingly both the All Season Polyester and Cotton, came with ZiG, whilst the Rip Stop Nylon was SiG.

Also the Cotton was the only model with Steel poles, the other two were aluminium poles.

As for the canvas of the All Season Polyester, that was an exclusive for Cabanon from the Ten Cate stable, it is the same canvas that Cabanon used for there commercial tent business, as they were replacing the cotton tents for that side of the business.

All Season Polyester from Cabanon, is arguable not only longer lasting, but also stronger than cotton canvas.

As another side note Cabanon did test variants of Polycotton canvas for the Biscaya range, but decided All Season Polyester was better for there commercial needs, and as far as I am aware Cabanon have never produced a Polycotton tent, which I thought was interesting.

I bought my Cotton Canvas Biscaya 370 new back in 2008, at a time when Cabanon had gone into chapter 11, well the French equivalent at least.

Brilliant tent in any of it's canvas types for the money, mine has certainly stood the test of time.

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