At last some sunshine! I've been waiting for a dry weekend since January to get my new Quechua tents out and have a play. Well, yesterday afternoon I put up my 4.2, connected it with the base seconds full and added a two man pop up under one of the canopies. Very satisfying! Really quick and easy. My two girls loved them. The youngest thought it was like a house as there are different rooms!
I then stood back and thought for a bit. What I needed was a smallish canopy to add on to the doorway to make a semi sheltered cooking area. I think the 4.2 is crying out for it! So, today I put up just the base seconds full - the doorways are the same on both tents- and got out the bits of a defective vis a vis Tescos tent that I had chopped up after they refunded me and never bothered to collect it! ( it's already been made into a rain skirt.) Themiddle section is just the right size to make a canopy- it even has two fibreglass poles. So, after adding a few guys and places to peg it down, I have a canopy. Gives me an extra 1.5m or so of shelter. The sides roll up- there were doors either side- and it tucks under the Quechua canopy very nicely. So, I tried out my new Trangia style cooker under the canopy. Boiled a kettle in no time!
Now, how do I add a photo? Can I do it from an ipad?
And I am glad to see that I am not the only DIY tentdesigner here... That canopy looks very good and fits perfectly!
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Looks great! Brilliant, in fact!! :-)
I presume no rain can get from your new canopy into your tent, seeing as it goes under the door shelter, rather than over?
Thanks everyone! I was rather proud of it! Even my husband was impressed and he hates camping!!
I think, when it goes up on a campsite, the small pop up will go parallel to the 4.2 and the canopy parallel to the 4.2 on the other side. It should make the set up slightly less sprawling. In the garden the swing set was in the way so I couldn't do it quite how I wanted!
The canopy is not tested beyond coping with the windyish afternoon yesterday. What it will do in the rain, I don't yet know.... Canopies seem to be the weak spot on tents and I presume people take them down if particularly windy weather is forecast?
I was, originally, planning to use the Coleman universal canopy that I already have. It is, however, impossible to erect without lots of help and it is also huge. I figured I didn't really need a huge canopy with all that lovely interior space. There are only three of us sharing after all!
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Topic: Happy weekend playing with my tents!
