Long weekend at Lancing, between Shoreham and Worthing at The Barn Caravan Park.
Walked into Shoreham on Friday and Worthing on Sunday whilst it was dry.
It rained non stop on the Saturday, so was a good test of my Vango Agora awning:
I found that:
1) Water tended to run down the porch tunnel, collect and then periodically dump itself right over the front tunnel door, which just happened to be the one we were using. Every time we had to open it, we got a free shower!!
2) The awning, IMHO, needs more pegging points around each of the larger doors when the weather is bad. I used these tarpaulin clips to peg down better.
3) I’ve decided I’m not a fan of being able to flatten the entry thresholds of the main doors. They end up being too floppy when toggled up, which is a weak point when it’s p***ing it down and your trying to keep the outer door flaps secured underneath the integral groundsheet.
4) Very pleased we purchased the “footprint” which kept the main awning pretty clean. We were on a grass pitch and the “footprint” was absolutely caked in mud when we packed away. The ground underneath the awning was absolutely saturated.
5) The fly mesh being on the outside of the clear windows meant as soon as they got wet it stuck to the windows and reduced visibility. I would have thought that the mesh being on the inside would have been a better idea but there must be a reason they do it the other way????
6) My wife only tripped up over the high visibility guide ropes once!! And I missed it!!!
I also split the EHU for the first time: Fed it into the awning, used a splitter, then fed a short lead out to the van EHU point and used a mobile power unit in the awning:
Worked well for us, and better than trailing a mains extension reel out from the van; safer too.
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and I'm completely cream-crackered
after a very early start
and 2 hours of being bombarded with info
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