Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!hao!noao!arizona!amethyst!hdunne From: hdunne@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (HUGH) Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: best design Keywords: stress, wind shear, tents Message-ID: <592@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu> Date: 17 Dec 87 17:04:54 GMT References: <848@uop.edu> Sender: news@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu Organization: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Arizona at Tucson Lines: 23 In article <848@uop.edu> robert@uop.edu (Hi how ya doin) writes: }After last night's high winds, it got me to thinking (while laying awake }thinking the house was about to cave in), what would be the best high }wind/rain (oh shit!!) kind of a tent? } ...sun!ptsfa!cogent!/ I own a tent called "Force 10", made by a Scottish company called Vango. It's supposed to stand up to a force 10 hurricane. It's a basic A-frame tent which gets its wind resistance by being anchored to the ground with about 27 zillion pegs. It takes at least half an hour to put up. Several years ago I was camping in north Wales with a mountaineering club when a very severe storm blew up. I don't remember what it registered on the Beaufort scale (i.e. the force number) but I heard there were gusts well over 100 mph. Those of us with force-10's were okay (though some rain got into mine) but the others had to abandon their tents and spend the night in a nearby youth hostel. When they came back in the morning they found their tents uprooted, flysheets blown away, etc. I remember that the tent which suffered the worst damage was one supposedly shaped for low wind resistance. Hugh Dunne | ...{cmcl2,ihnp4,seismo!noao}!arizona!amethyst!hdunne Dept. of Math. | Phone: | {amethyst.ma.arizona.edu} Univ. of Arizona | +1 602 621 4766 | hdunne@{ arizrvax.bitnet } Tucson AZ 85721 | +1 602 621 6893 | { rvax.ccit.arizona.edu }