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21/7/2023 at 11:55am
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Thankfully I've never had to bring home my large heavy (3.3m) air awning soaking wet! I've taken it down early in the dry if prospect of having to pack it seriously wet on last day! Guess I've been lucky and that plan has always worked!
But I have taken down my much lighter and smaller (2.6m) poled awning in torrential rain (there never was an opportunity to take it down dry for duration of my stay!). It got stuffed in a bin bag and placed in rear shower. I was cautious towing at first to get a feel of what that unfamiliar weight at the back of the van would do to handling, but I had compensated by placing a similar weight further forward than I would normally do to keep noseweight correct, it was fine, but then probably only 8-10Kg in weight (a lot of that being water!), as all the other associated stuff, poles, draft skirt, pegs etc. were not with it.
I bought the smaller lighter poled awning specifically for times when the large air awning would be a problem if wet! For me, it's not just the transport, it's not having anywhere at home to dry a soaking wet awning of that size! A merely damp awning can dry off in spare room. The small lightweight flysheet will hang over the clothes line, assuming weather at home is cooperative!
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