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Old August 3rd 05, 03:36 PM
George Patterson
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Tom McQuinn wrote:

I am very interested in any brands of tent that
anyone could recommend.


http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5A232C8B

George Patterson
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Old August 3rd 05, 03:48 PM
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"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Tom McQuinn wrote:

I am very interested in any brands of tent that
anyone could recommend.


http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5A232C8B

He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)





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Old August 3rd 05, 04:18 PM
George Patterson
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Matt Barrow wrote:

He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)


8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding dome tent
I use.

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Old August 3rd 05, 05:08 PM
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("George Patterson" wrote)
He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)


8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding
dome tent I use.



All this tent talk. For me, it was all about the air mattress this year.
Mine is almost 20" high.


Montblack

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Old August 3rd 05, 05:37 PM
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Actually, I appreciate any and all information I can gather on this.

And even though I didn't know about seam sealer and don't doubt that it
should be used, none of my soakings were from leaking seams. My
problems have always been mechanical - rain flys that seem like an
afterthought and don't keep out blowing rain (or collapse in the wind).

Tom

George Patterson wrote:
Matt Barrow wrote:


He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)



8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding
dome tent I use.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.


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Old August 3rd 05, 07:31 PM
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"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

He said he wanted a tent, not a hangar. :~)


8' x 8' isn't a hangar. That's only a little larger than the Spaulding

dome tent
I use.


Eight Feet? 64 square feet?

What do you camp with, a harem?



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Old August 3rd 05, 07:47 PM
George Patterson
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?


My air mattress is 4.5'x6'. With the 8'x7' floor of my tent, that is barely
enough room to keep the mattress from touching the walls and let me stick a few
items around the edges. Mine is billed as a "2-person" tent which, as other
posters have already pointed out, really means a "2-pygmy" tent. As I said, the
Cabela's tent isn't much larger.

That extra foot in width would give me enough room to make sure that my bag
wouldn't start a leak by touching the tent wall in the rain. I was also
impressed by the wind test -- I rode out one T-storm in mine and am not anxious
to repeat the experience.

George Patterson
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Old August 3rd 05, 08:08 PM
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"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?


My air mattress is 4.5'x6'. With the 8'x7' floor of my tent, that is

barely
enough room to keep the mattress from touching the walls and let me stick

a few
items around the edges. Mine is billed as a "2-person" tent which, as

other
posters have already pointed out, really means a "2-pygmy" tent. As I

said, the
Cabela's tent isn't much larger.


The picture made it look as big as a garage! :~)

That extra foot in width would give me enough room to make sure that my

bag
wouldn't start a leak by touching the tent wall in the rain. I was also
impressed by the wind test -- I rode out one T-storm in mine and am not

anxious
to repeat the experience.


I stopped "tenting" several years ago when the bones got to rough for that
sort of thing.

Now I take the sissy way out and bought a Coleman pop-up. I actually look
forward to T-storms now.





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Old August 4th 05, 01:59 AM
George Patterson
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Matt Barrow wrote:

The picture made it look as big as a garage! :~)


The picture is almost certainly their 12x12 model.

Now I take the sissy way out and bought a Coleman pop-up.


Sort of hard to tow that behind an aircraft.

George Patterson
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Old August 3rd 05, 04:48 PM
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Tom McQuinn wrote:
I am very interested in any brands of tent that anyone could recommend.


George Patterson wrote:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?U5A232C8B


George, that's not a tent!
That's a portable mansion!
 




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