I leave my two 0 degree sleeping bags (Wiggy’s, love them!) that are zipped together up in my Howling Moon 1.4 Tourer tent along with PJ’s for the kids & me. The only thing I carry up before being able to get in bed is the pillows & a fresh change of clothes. I do have my rainfly completely removed which did add some room for closing. With the fly off I can actually see the stars through the stargazer and haven’t had an issue with water getting in, although I’ve only had it in the rain without the fly a couple of times.
Leaving annex attached while folding up tent?
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I leave my two 0 degree sleeping bags (Wiggy’s, love them!) that are zipped together up in my Howling Moon 1.4 Tourer tent along with PJ’s for the kids & me. The only thing I carry up before being able to get in bed is the pillows & a fresh change of clothes. I do have my rainfly completely removed which did add some room for closing. With the fly off I can actually see the stars through the stargazer and haven’t had an issue with water getting in, although I’ve only had it in the rain without the fly a couple of times.
Tkhawk
Adventurer
Question, how do you cinch down the tent with the annex attached? I've got a CVT Mount Rainier Extended. I bought a rail off of amazon, much cheaper than from CVT, sorry CVT but $40 plus $40 shipping for a rail is a bit to much of a mark up. I installed it last night and slid the annex in without opening the tent up because it was rainy outside. When I went to zip it on, I realized the cinch down straps were in the way. I figure I'll just make a slit in between the zipper and the rail and slide the d-ring thru, but just wanted to check and make sure there wasn't something I wasn't seeing right. I did go ahead and put the cover on and it all fit in easily without the floor, I think the floor would probably fit as well. It does leave the cover a bit lumpy and not smooth like it was before. I do also have 4 sleeping bags in the tent.
jacobconroy
Hillbilly of Leisure
It'd help knowing what specific RTT you have.
I used to own an Eezi-Awn Globetrotter and I could collapse with annex attached. It's designed for a trailer top though.
Same here. I have a Globetrotter and leave the annex attached. But, it takes up just enough room that I had to cut down on the amount of bedding that I kept in the tent. Now days I use the globetrotter for a private, concealed bathroom and do not sleep in that tent, so no bedding is necessary. Really easy to set up when the annex is always attached.
K2ZJ
Explorer
Link?
Tkhawk
Adventurer
OnBeechRoad
Observer
I have a Tepui RTT with the annex. My annex seems to work the best when the tent floor height is around 80" from the ground. Since I'm only 5'4" the height makes it difficult to set up the annex, so I rarely would. I hated having to remove my travel cover, try to slide the annex into the sail track then affix the other 3 sides of the annex to the Velcro. Usually the weight of the annex would disconnect it from the Velcro and the whole thing would come back down to the ground. Solution... I went to my local tent, boat canopy and awning manufacturer and worked with them. I bought an additional piece of sail track and permanently mounted it to the bottom of the tent floor, into which i slid a piece of fabric with a wide band of Velcro attached, this stays on the tent full time as well as my travel cover. Then the tent company removed the spline from the annex and replaced it with Velcro. Then they sewed in some small d-rings onto which i hooked on some carabiners. The carabiners will hook into d-rings screwed to the bottom of the tent to support the weight of the annex while i secure the Velcro. I hope the pics help with this description.
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aussieantics
New member
How did you go? Same tent and will be doing this setup soon with your link. Thank you. Were you able to close it with the floor on still?
Cheers
Scoutman
Explorer
I did it once with our CVT Mt Denali, summit, extended. It wasn't pretty and I probably won't do it again. That fabric is so stinking heavy and bulky that it just sucked. For us it was at the end of a wet and muddy weekend and also the welting was jammed in the secondary track (the plastic version, not the aluminum version). We knew we were just going to come home and open it right back up. We weren't able to fasten the end straps since the other end was inside the annex. The summit series travel cover seems to have more excess room so it technically fit but like I said I probably won't make a habit of it.
You can sort of see here it's packed like an overstuffed sausage.
You can sort of see here it's packed like an overstuffed sausage.
Scoutman
Explorer
I am giving this another shot. Using the plastic secondary channel from CVT ended up binding up my annex so I had to replace it with the aluminum version. Note for anyone adding an extra track that the leverage of the ladders put a lot of force on that channel so be careful that it doesn't deform when you pull on the ladders. I will probably add a bumper strip to take that load.
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