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Just returned from our first trip in our seconhand Athena. Firslty I must say WOW, I can now see what a difference canvas/frame tents make. It was a much nicer place to be in the hot weather but we had a problem when it rained.

We had leaks from the seam where the kitchen area joins the main body of the tent. There is a strip of fabric that runs accross below the seam in the roof that was dripping wet. We also had water coming in at the sides of the window.

The tent had been used recently before we bought it. We had a couple of days of rain and the same thing happened.

Any advice appreciated!

Could it be that although recently used they had a dry camp & it may have been stored away for considerable time prior to that?

I say this because we took our Athena out for its second camp a couple of weeks ago and it leaked in a couple of areas (first camp in it was dry with just a bit of condensation) - one area was where I'd added the mosquito netting & it was coming through the stitching holes but also another in a non seam area of tent.  We are hopeful & fairly confident that the canvas will reseal itself now as ours hadn't been out of storage for years & only ever used once & we really should have given it a soaking & let it dry prior to use.