Bought one second hand and looking for pitching instructions. Advice or help please. It's in the post and I plan to try it weather permitting at the weekend. I can only see the Biscaya 440 on YouTube.
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Yep, probably similar to the Biscaya we have, if you want a copy of my Cabanon instructions post your e-mail.
To be fair though it is easy, front hoop in place, and use that to pull the tent up, leaving it lossley tethered, this will allow you to go inside and zip in the remaining hoops, pushing them forward at the same time.
Just ensure that the door is always un-zipped otherwise a kind of vacum is created, which will slow the progress.
We have the 370 which is quite easy for me to pitch on my own,.
Trying to get my head round the process whereby the canvas seems to be lashed to the poles and then attached to the guys for pegging to the ground.
Is this to take the tension from the canvas and spread it to the poles?
Or is it to share it.
I saw some ratchet straps which have a hook at one end. I wondered about using them. Hooked on to the poles, pegged to the ground then tensioned.
How would you describe the groundsheet in the bedroom inner tent of your Awaya? Is it a thin synthetic material or a thick, rubberised one? (I don't mean the groundsheet in the main tent, just in the bedroom inner.)
Don't have a link to the instructions manual but they are short so have retyped:
1. Peg the groundsheet tightly and squarely
2. The tent has 4 cord linked hoops (sets of poles) - all are the same except for the feet (legs). Assemble 3 of the hoops (with the flat rubber feet) and place on the groundsheet.
3. Place the canvas over the top of the hoops and the groundsheet and then attach it using the zips. The zips run from the back of the tent to the front.
4. Assemble the 4th hoop ( the one with the spiked legs) but do not attach the legs.
5. Slide this hoop through the sleeve in the sun canopy
6. Now add on the spiked legs.
7. Lift the sun canopy and secure it loosely with a guy rope. As indicated in the post by rhj256 make sure you put the tension on the hoop and not on the canvas. Would love to know myself the textbook way of doing this!
8. Fully unzip the front door and then go inside the tent underneath the canvas
9. Starting with the hoop at the rear of the tent (then work forward), lift each in turn to its upright position and zip into its respective sleeve.
10. Peg the front of the tent, attach the other 2 guy ropes to the canopy and adjust the one loosely attached in step 7. Again ensure you are putting the tension on the poles, not on the canvas (it will tear otherwise).
11. Peg out the rest of the tent
12. The bedrooms can now be fitted by pushing the toggles of the inner tents through the plastic loops fitted to the groundsheet. Then starting at the back wall lift the bedrooms and attach the hooks to the sleeve and the hoop.
In relation to the query on the groundsheet in the bedrooms - it is the same thickness and material as the main groundsheet. It is a thick rubberised one and 100% waterproof - we've camped in some atrocious weather and while others have gone home wet and muddy, even with what has felt like a river flowing under the tent for many days, we have remained 100% dry!
Have fun - the Awaya 500 is a great tent.
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In the tent right now at Gwithian Farm. We love it and even though there are only 3 of us we love the space and comfort.
We set up as described above but found it easier to put the pole up just inside the door, second. I didn't like being under all that canvas in the heat. The dark blue bedroom pods are a great colour and keep the morning light quite subdued. We have them set up as on large bedroom for Mum and Dad and the smaller one for my son. The groundsheet needs a covering of some sort and we use an old Outwell carpet. It is close enough in size.
I find the windows which have a slight overlap are easily opened by even a gentle breeze. This is fine during the day but annoying when the temperature drops at night. We cook outside and have an additional sun canopy. This has meant attaching a wrap around wind-break. I have moved it around as the wind changes direction. I will want to improve this fro next year. I am looking at the Karsten Cotton wind-break which is a more robust creature to the flimsy nylon thing I have at present.
The next challenge will be packing it up for the road home. Hopefully in the dry and then laying it out at work over the weekend to ensure it is bone dry before packing away. Overall we are delighted with it and glad we made the move to Cabanon.
We had the 440 kitchenette cabanon, we packed away so many different ways depending on how much room was left in car after packing everything away. Sometimes short and fat sometimes long and thinner.
Its not as bad as you think but gets easier the more you do it.
The weather here has been variable and although I longed for hot or at least warm, I have been pleased with how it has stood up to the elements. I have used our car and trailer to block the wind gusts at the front due to a real concern about the front end acting like a sail in the wind and being lashed down it might be vulnerable.
I love rolling open the entire front on the few occasions when it has been hot and getting the benefit of the shade.
I don't think your tent will be going anywhere, we had severe weather in ours wind cutting through the site, it didn't budge an inch. Safe and sound tent definitely
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