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I only ask as the sales chap said the Cabannon Aruba didn't need them !!!!!!!! I'm just a bit dubious of what a 19yr old boy says and thought i would get the opinion of a seasoned Cabannon user.

So 'of cause they need them' is possibly not the only answer !!

But thank you for such a constructive and pleasant answer.

Well no, a frame tent doesn`t actually need guylines if you`ve pitched it on a nice calm day. It`s not like a synthetic tunnel where the tent won`t actually stand up without guylines. But ........

.........if the wind gets up at 2am, or when you`re on a day trip twenty miles away from the campsite, you`ll be glad you pegged out everything, really you will. There`s more tents ended up in the campsite dustbin because of poor pegging out than for any other reason.

Golden Rule No1....peg everything out, every single time.

(Golden Rule No2 being one peg per pegging point/guyline. No doubling up guylines on pegs. )

Cheers Teloz & Valk_scot.

Guy ropes pegged in all conditions it is then.

I'm going to disagree.  I've been camping for 20 plus nights a year for nearly 15 years and very rarely put all the guy ropes out on any of my tents with the exception of my tunnel backpackers tent which won't stand upright with out and scout patrol tents for the same reason.  Provided you keep an eye on the weather and put them out if the wind picks up or if it looks like rain and the outer is touching the inner.  even in the wind I'm more keen to make sure all the pegs are holding down the outer than getting the guy ropes on.

I've never had a tent blow over in all that time. 

But Salley there are plenty of people who smoke for years and never get cancer but would they advise other people to it insisting its safe  ?(ok crap analogy but it was the best I could think at the time ,im feeling poo )
And why would you want to give yourself the extra work of faffing around if a storm is brewing ?do it to start with and they are already done!

If the guys are there ,use them ,how much extra effort is it ? so it overkill ,so what ? better safe than sorry and there is always a first time!

I say peg your tent out properly, better safe than very sorry. How many people go camping and stay in or near the tent 24/7 ?  Most folk go out walking or doing other things like visiting castles etc.. Imagine comming back to your tent in the middle of a storm or high winds and finding it ripped and flapping about on the deck 

Peg it out it doesn't take long!