Message Forums

As newbies to caravanning we were looking forward to a 2 night stay at a local site to try out the awning,its our sons 8th birthday so he was having a friend and so was our daughter,count me and hubby and my mum ,so the awning was well needed.So we go off on saturday morning to local play park for sons party,left the site in heavy rain but all pretty calm. On our return later we arrived to see our awning up and over the top of the caravan,ripped to shreds,poles all bent and really a disaster . Thankfully some neighbouring campers tried to retrieve anything and make best of a bad situation.So is the lesson to learn,always put the storm strap on whatever the weather because this is certainly what we have learnt.As they say in hindsight you would have. Lets hope its a smooth operation if we can make a claim :(

Karen

wow i only asked the question yesterday regarding awning tie downs, we are deffo getting some now.

sorry to hear about what happened hope the items inside the awning and the caravan are alright.

look here

http://www.cuddles.abelgratis.net/sterling.htm

Well we went out today and got ourselves a cracking awning,TWO STORM STRAPS, and they threw in a matching ground sheet too. Didnt want to risk second hand (no offense) so we got a brand spanking new one. Needless to say in all our years of camping and now caravanning its always been second hand ,and we are really excited about having something unmarked by anyone else. Hopefully in the future we can get brand new caravan

Karen