• Small tent with standing room and a porch

    From James Harris@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 23 10:21:24 2015
    XPost: uk.rec.camping

    "gregz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:69931338460537783.401093zekor-comcast.net@news.eternal-september.org...
    "James Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
    I am looking for a tent which

    * allows a 6-foot (182cm) person to stand up in
    * has a "porch", i.e. somewhere covered to take off wet shoes etc
    * is not expensive
    * is for one person (me)
    * has a small footprint
    * is fairly lightweight as it and other things have to fit in a 15kg
    ferry allowance

    ...

    I have a couple steep walled tents. No porch flap. On the large one I
    just
    made my own top piece extending out for rain.

    In the end I went for a Trespass Go Further 2 Man Tent, weight about
    10kg. Like yours it doesn't have a porch. I might be able to add
    something over the front guy cords for another time.

    One slight surprise; although it was advertised as a Trespass tent the
    actual one I received was a Regatta. The model is a Regatta Premium
    909/9823(D) 2-man weekend tent.

    I would have guessed that Trespass and Regatta were company names and
    separate companies but perhaps not. Or perhaps they both resell the same Chinese-made tent under different names.

    James

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  • From James Harris@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 25 20:00:06 2015
    XPost: uk.rec.camping

    "Whiskers" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    On 2015-08-23, James Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

    ...

    In the end I went for a Trespass Go Further 2 Man Tent, weight about
    10kg. Like yours it doesn't have a porch. I might be able to add
    something over the front guy cords for another time.

    One slight surprise; although it was advertised as a Trespass tent
    the
    actual one I received was a Regatta. The model is a Regatta Premium
    909/9823(D) 2-man weekend tent.

    I would have guessed that Trespass and Regatta were company names and
    separate companies but perhaps not. Or perhaps they both resell the
    same Chinese-made tent under different names.

    One tent-maker to make them all ...

    ... and in the darkness bind them!

    Just for the record, would you use it again? Would you buy another
    the
    same?

    I would certainly use the tent again, especially if again going away via transport which had a similar luggage weight restriction. For that, it
    was ideal and the unusual height to footprint elicited some interest
    from other campers. If travel weight was not as restricted, however,
    such as going by car I would prefer to buy a slightly larger tent with
    another standing-height chamber (this one has two rooms: bedroom with
    room for a double bed and one other room slightly smaller) and some
    porch space to leave wet shoes in.

    HTH
    James

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  • From Whiskers@21:1/5 to James Harris on Tue Aug 25 14:52:59 2015
    XPost: uk.rec.camping

    On 2015-08-23, James Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
    "gregz" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:69931338460537783.401093zekor-comcast.net@news.eternal-september.org...
    "James Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
    I am looking for a tent which

    * allows a 6-foot (182cm) person to stand up in * has a "porch",
    i.e. somewhere covered to take off wet shoes etc * is not expensive
    * is for one person (me) * has a small footprint * is fairly
    lightweight as it and other things have to fit in a 15kg ferry
    allowance

    ...

    I have a couple steep walled tents. No porch flap. On the large one I
    just made my own top piece extending out for rain.

    In the end I went for a Trespass Go Further 2 Man Tent, weight about
    10kg. Like yours it doesn't have a porch. I might be able to add
    something over the front guy cords for another time.

    One slight surprise; although it was advertised as a Trespass tent the
    actual one I received was a Regatta. The model is a Regatta Premium 909/9823(D) 2-man weekend tent.

    I would have guessed that Trespass and Regatta were company names and separate companies but perhaps not. Or perhaps they both resell the
    same Chinese-made tent under different names.

    James

    One tent-maker to make them all ...

    Just for the record, would you use it again? Would you buy another the
    same?

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    -- ^^^^^^^^^^
    -- Whiskers
    -- ~~~~~~~~~~

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