2014 Stormvogel varioluifel in 95kph winds

tuscy · **Geregistreerd:** 08 mei 2016, 17:43 **Berichten:** 11

Great video!

Bit of a crowded campsite though. This is more our style... Afbeelding

ecm

Bench schreef:

I’m sure people have seen it, but this certainly beat our storm and the De Waards were still standing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ophyH ... ture=share

Believe me, enough De Waard tents were severely damaged during that storm in 2015 and not only at Stortemelk :!:

About 25 years ago we survived, with a new Albatros Jr typeII high in the Norwegian mountains, a storm of approximately 11Bft. I can still shiver by thinking back at that moment........

ecm

tuscy schreef:

Bit of a crowded campsite though. This is more our style... Afbeelding

I agree, and I like your car :wink:

This is one of mine:

tuscy · **Geregistreerd:** 08 mei 2016, 17:43 **Berichten:** 11

Emile schreef:

tuscy schreef:

Bit of a crowded campsite though. This is more our style... Afbeelding

I agree, and I like your car :wink:

This is one of mine:

The Discovery 3 is a total money pit but I love it and it's brilliant for camping.

Impressive roof tent but I'd be worried about sleepwalking!

ecm

tuscy schreef:

The Discovery 3 is a total money pit but I love it and it's brilliant for camping.

I had the Discovery 3 for over 12 years and had never very big expenses than just once an air suspension failure on the right rear corner. Even so with my Range Rover (type L405), so far never big expenses, fingers crossed :!:

I really do love these cars too, so I recently replaced the discovery 3 for a Discovery 4. The new discovery is to my opinion a design failure (more an estate car instead of a serious 4x4) as is the new defender too.

Citaat:

Impressive roof tent but I'd be worried about sleepwalking!

We never rolled out of it :wink:

Barbera

Bench schreef:

Hi all,

I’m lucky enough to have a 2014 Stormvogel (hello Barbera if you’re reading this!)

Hi Ben,

good to hear you survived your first storm. We were camping at Vlieland in that same storm and it was a scary one! We had some damage: an older tent, pitched on a dune and the wind on the front for almost 24 hours.

Bench schreef:

The instructions I've seen online for getting the varioluifel into the ‘M’ storm position indicates five pole or guyline attachment points, however mine has seven - is a storm position still possible? In the end I had to unzip ours when windows went over 50mph.

We have had a Roerdomp (same as the Stormvogel but with 2 main poles in stead of 1) and that varioluifel also had 7 attachment points. My son once tried different variations, for some you will need 2 extra (short) poles and/or lines. Hope the pictures help. Just try it out on a sunny and calm day and have fun with it!

Bench · **Geregistreerd:** 25 aug 2020, 13:45 **Berichten:** 8

Hey Barbera, great to hear from you! We're well and the tent is amazing - you'd cared for it very well and the whole family are loving it.

Thanks for the photos, our problem was the wind direction changed from on-shore to off-shore so the front of the tent was exposed to the full blast. We couldn't see a way to peg the vario all the down to the ground so I removed it for the worst of the two storms which was fine if there isn't another option.

I think I'm also realising messing around with the vario is an essential part of De Waard camping

All the best,

Ben

2014 Stormvogel varioluifel in 95kph winds

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