Quote: Originally posted by stratingham on 05/10/2008
Hi Rex I believe the awnings for the new Conways and Pennines are made by Isabella.Also the ne w models which are to be shown at the NEC will have an acrylic cabin also made by Isabella.Good luck with your new camper, I'm sure you'll love it we do.Cheers John.
Hi John
When I asked the sales man he was unsure but agreed with me when I suggested it was Cabanon, but when you feel the canvas Isabella always as a hard feel were cabanon is soft
So I am sure you are correct, I do believe Isabella use one of the Ten-Cate canvases so it should be fine and we all know the quality of the workmanship of isabella.
Thank you for the information.
Rex.
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Good luck to you Rex (and Val) in your new folding camper.I for one have always found your posts informative and straight to the point.We like yourselves will be moving over to a TT in the next couple of years(when we have saved up enough).OH really struggles in the tent getting in and out of bed because of his arthritic knee's.We would have liked a Cabanon Biscaya but know that this will not happen,instead we have got our eyes on a Cabanon Stellar TT.I'm sure we will still see you posting in the tent section and will look forward to you 'terrorising'them in the FC and TT section.
Once again good luck in your new venture.
Post last edited on 06/10/2008 08:48:57
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Hi sue.
If I post on the FC & TT forum I will be looking for advice, as at present I have none to offer but this place is home to me and here I hope to stay
I look at the Stella when we bought our FC and it really does look a sturdy TT I think I would prefer it to the dome type ones. and also you could use storm poles to strenthen the frame in a full blown gale if you wanted.
I have already worked out that if I cut down my steel awning rails I will be able to cross section the poles in the camper cabin and my storm poles will be used in the campers awning, and they will travel on top of the trailer, for use in extreme conditions of wind.
The only other change will be to fit the correct plugs onto my 12 volt set up and fit the solar leads and regulator into the campers battery box. The only thing we both agree that we will miss will be the comfort of our Bivvy beds they will have to go but the Campers beds can be improved later but that will be as you say when the cash comes avaleable
and most importantly it will make life easier for the lady who helps me keep going to camp, and I now realise that I have had my own way far too long
All the best
Rex.
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Interesting what you say about Cabanon cotton canvas, why would Cabanon wait until 2007 before they launched the Cotton Biscaya and only for the 370 model, which was some time after the launch of the Biscaya range, I also notice the Cotton version was with sewn-in groundsheet when first launched, and then in 2008 they go to Zipped-in groundsheet, like the rest of the range, I can only think that the Sewn in version was too big a bag to pack, also from launch the Cotton version has steel poles, not Aluminium like the other Biscaya's, probably due to the Cotton being more heavy than the Polycotton/TenCate model. the Cabanon web-site does not seem to do their products justice, but I guess that encourages folk to go and look at them in the flesh.
Hi Rex, good luck for your off the ground future. Like the idea of having friends that you have never met. In my brief time camping your advice has been invaluable and I thank you for that. Stick around.
Quote: Originally posted by Francais on 06/10/2008
Hi Rex.
Interesting what you say about Cabanon cotton canvas, why would Cabanon wait until 2007 before they launched the Cotton Biscaya and only for the 370 model, which was some time after the launch of the Biscaya range, I also notice the Cotton version was with sewn-in groundsheet when first launched, and then in 2008 they go to Zipped-in groundsheet, like the rest of the range, I can only think that the Sewn in version was too big a bag to pack, also from launch the Cotton version has steel poles, not Aluminium like the other Biscaya's, probably due to the Cotton being more heavy than the Polycotton/TenCate model. the Cabanon web-site does not seem to do their products justice, but I guess that encourages folk to go and look at them in the flesh.
Hi Francais
I don't know much about the Biscaya's only what I have read on this forum and seen displayed at dealers I have never seen the cotton 370 but If I had been in the market for a Biscaya,that is the one I would have chosen.
But for Val and I the two bigger tents we have the Cabanon Andorra's in our opinion are the best deigned tents for three adults or 2+2 children, they can not be faulted. No body knows or is willing to say, what the life span of any tent that as polyester in the weave is, but we do know that cotton is far superior to polyester and is far more stable and UV resistant. But even with cotton canvas we have to beware of were the canvas is made, the best tent canvas comes from, the centre 5% of the cotton pod and is twisted many times to achieve the correct type of thread to weave.
You can always tell the very cheap canvas as it contains brown inclusions in the weave.this type of canvas although still water resistant dose not breath as well as the top grade canvas. and was woven in the past for ground sheets.
There I go again ranting on.
Regards
Rex.
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