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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
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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.

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