Can anyone offer Feedback on the Beyond Corvus 6+2 please?
I have recently purchased the Gelert Beyond Corvus 6+2 before they sold out in many places, which would lead me to believe that there are a few owners out there!!...
I am interested in whether any of the other corvus owners seem to have the same problems that I am experiencing.
1. Groundsheet doesn't peg down close enough to ground and the fly doesn't reach the ground and is 4/5 inches too short which leads to..
2. slightest breeze lifts the sewn in groundsheet a foot off the ground ( I now call it the bouncy castle), this is with a light breeze which doesn't give me with much confidence should a proper windy day appear when pitched as it would lift the tent and off it goes.
Now I love the room in this tent and ticks all the boxes apart from this "design fault".
I haven't spoken to Gelert yet, thought I would see if there is a general problem with this on the forum from the users.
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Hi HON65, welcome to the forum.
I don't have the corvus , and can only think of one thing ,the flysheet shouldnt be 4 inches above the ground , so are there any tension straps that could be loosened off to maybe lower the flysheet a bit ?
Thanks for a reply, the groundsheet has straps with ring/pin on the end, these are adjustable but even loose the fly will not touch the ground.
I looked at this tent a couple of times when shopping for which to buy and cannot believe I never spotted this, then I didn't know what I should be looking for, as a newbie and was concentrating on the rooms/size doors etc....
Dont get me wrong at this stage I am not ruling out "user error" but believe me i have tried all sorts of adjustments!!.
The object is to get some feedback from other owners first to see if this is more widespread..
We also have a Gelert Corvus & we had our first practice at pitching on Sunday. Initially we also thought that the tent was sitting a bit too high. What we tried was loosening all the tention straps and moving all the poles out slightly & this seem to solve the problem for us. Once we had pegged out the front completly it was fine.
jogl, thanks for the reply.. have you the carpet at all, wondering if this would help keep a flat floor. did you experience any problems with the floor lifting inside???
other than that what a cracking tent, so much room.
HON65 We have also bought the carpet, but we haven't got it out of the box yet. When we first pitched the tent the floor was lifting slightly inside. This was soon rectifed by by my 4 year daughter & 2 of our neighbours children, when I came up with a great game of "roll around on the floor to get rid of all the creases" Oh to be a child again.
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hi robbo71, glad there are more of us out there.. you have it spot on, when I pitch the rear of the tent (bedrooms) is flush to the ground, and the front ends up way off??.
if you can get the front to fit flush(er) then please post the results
p.s. I have emailed Gelert (yesterday) no response as yet, I will be dissappointed in them if they cannot be bothered to reply.
Sorry to jump in on this but i've just ordered the Corvus and interested in your thoughts on how easy it is to pitch by one person? Most of the time there will be at least two but this weekend i may have to do it on my own for the first time and wondered what it would be like?
I've looked for a vid or some instructions online but not found any?
Cheers
Carl
Again sorry for jumping in on your post. Happy to post own topic if that would be better.
Just spoke to my husband about the tent, & he says that he actually moved the poles further in which created more of a bucket shape with inner. Sorry about that, we had actually tried to get it right a few different ways & I thought we had settled on moving the poles apart.
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My husband almost pitched the tent my himself. I really only helped by holding onto the guyropes at the front end so he could get the tent into a better position.
Thanks very much for the information. Will have a look at the instructions and then decide what to do.
Would be easier for me to go to the local ish site and pitch it so we can get on the site and then collect the rest of the family when my daughter finish's school.
really really easy to pitch, no problems, put poles in and raise one end & guy to hold up & work your way down. now I have pitched both times front to rear, but it has been suggested to go rear to front??..keep me posted on your corvus's
Excellent information thanks. I will report back after i have pitched it on Friday. Possibly upload some pics into the review section as well. Only one review in there and it isn't a good one really which is worrying after some of the comments in threads in this forum and from speaking to people in various shops.
Just read your post on how you pitched the tent and you did it the same way as me from front to back.Maybe this is the problem with the ground sheet being raised at the front as like you say gelert recomend pitching from back to front .I think I may do it again that way and see if it,s any better. Also the tent got a right good soaking last night when we had a real heavy down poor for about 2hrs and not one drop anyware inside the tent .
Croutledge
The tent is very easy to pitch on your own I did this in an hour on my 1st try but saying that I dont think it would be easy if it was windy though.
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have you the carpet at all, wondering if this would help keep a flat floor. did you experience any problems with the floor lifting inside???
. When we first pitched the tent the floor was lifting slightly inside. This was soon rectifed by by my 4 year daughter & 2 of our neighbours children, when I came up with a great game of "roll around on the floor to get rid of all the creases"
Oh to be a child again.
