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Hi ,

 A newbie here needing some advice.

We have never been camping before ,but have recently bought a secondhand europa 6. We have practised putting it up in the garden which was quite easy ,but wondered about how to peg around the poles. The corner poles are Ok as the tent has slits ,but the side poles are not easy to peg round and we end up with a gap as we have to just sort of fold the tent up and cannot fold it in. I am just a little worried in case we get heavy rain, will it let the water in ?

Thankyou

Esther

Hi Esther, Looking at the piccy of your tent, it looks like the draught flaps do tuck inside cos the pegging points are on the outside. Some frame tents, Marechal for instance, have the pegging points on the inside, so their flaps lie outside.

With our recently aquired Cabanon Julie, we had to cut the draught flap for the centre back pole. Our flaps are made of polyethelene (like tarps), not PVC, so it was fine to cut it diagonal up towards the pole without it fraying, and it now tucks neatly under the ground sheet with no draughts.

If your flaps are polyethelene then it's fine to cut a diagonal slit in it. However, I can't be sure if this is okay on PVC (smooth without any weave showing) flaps. You could always email Sunncamp to ask their advice.

Nice tent by the way. Welcome to the forum

Thanks for your replies, I have email sunncamp, so hopefully they will come up with some useful advise.

I will no doubt be asking some more ?'s before our first trip in a few weeks time