RTT question

[goin camping]

Considering a trailer with a RTT for the jeep. The tent pictures I've seen all have WIndow and door awnings and what looks like roof flies.

Living and camping in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts I have a major concern. How do these trailers stand up to wind. Wether it's 110 in summer or 18 in winter. We got high winds and lots of it. Twenty to fifty m.p.h. sustained winds are common.

How do these RTTs stand up to that kinda wind?

 

[cnynrat]

We have an Eezi-Awn RTT on an Adventure Trailer. A few years ago while camping near Horseshoe Canyon in Utah we had a night with sustained winds of up to 60-70 MPH. It often sounded like a 747 was landing on our campsite. The tent was noisy (duh!), but sustained no damage.

 

[bob91yj]

Always wondered the same thing.

I used to have a Coleman pop up camper. Mid 80's model, probably the smallest one in the line up. We were camped at Mean's Dry Lake (The Hammer's trails). Over night wind gusts over 75MPH. Fortunately I'd thought ahead for a change and parked into the wind. The canvas popped and cracked all night, but held. None of the tents in camp held through the night. Keep in mind camp was a group of rockcrawlers, tents are generally Walmart quality.

 

[bob91yj]

We have an Eezi-Awn RTT on an Adventure Trailer. A few years ago while camping near Horseshoe Canyon in Utah we had a night with sustained winds of up to 60-70 MPH. It often sounded like a 747 was landing on our campsite. The tent was noisy (duh!), but sustained no damage.

Never really looked at the structure on one. What are the supports made from? I had a Walmart three room tent a few years back, main structure is old school steel tubes. It survived a windstorm at Truckhaven that flattened all of the fiberglass poled dome style tents.

This thread is bringing back some cool memories from some old trips. Hope you guys don't mind the rambling.:coffeedrink:

 

[ManleyORV]

I had two ARB's, a Simpson III and a Pilbera up at Drummond Island a couple months ago. We had a hellacious storm overnight with wind gusts above 50mph and even though I was awakened quite a bit with the noise, they held up fine.

Wondered if any of the RTT companies have done a maximum sustained wind test. I'd be curious.

-Josh

 

[goin camping]

Did any of the tents above have a roof fly?

 

[Hill Bill E.]

Did any of the tents above have a roof fly?

Both of mine had/do. (RTT from 'Rack-Tents.com and now one from CVT)

I've had both out in some serious winds, and had no serious problems.

One really windy week in Moab, one of the rain fly eyelets got worn some, from flapping in the wind. Didn't affect the tent at all, just kind of made the eyelet into an oval shape.

 

[VanIsle_Greg]

I have a CVT Mt Hood that I recently purchased. It has a good strong internal 3 hoop structure and the tent sides are attached to it to keep it taught and give the tent structure when deployed. The rain fly has 2 hoops dedicated to it and it attaches to the tent with adjustable straps. You then use the steel plated rods to hold open the window dormers and fly ends. They are pre-tensioned and are quite sturdy. You can also close all of the dormers and fly so if you wanted to reduce the chance that things get hammered by the wind?

I have not yet been in wind that strong in mine, but I can see that from the way it is made, it could take a beating and remain gtg.

 

[Deleted member 48574]

I have a Tepui but i understand the design is virtually the same on most of these.

All of my awnings/flaps can zip in to make them less susceptible to the wind. The top fly can be tensioned. I've had it in some major gusts -- too windy to sleep, couldn't drive the jeep in 6th gear because the wind was slowing me down type wind--with no problems.

Regards
Craig

 

[cnynrat]

Never really looked at the structure on one. What are the supports made from?

Approximately 1/2" diameter steel tubing.

 

[cnynrat]

Did any of the tents above have a roof fly?

Yes, my Eezi- Awn has a fly that's attached to the tent with short lengths of nylon webbing and Fastek buckles. We did have the window and door awnings buckled down. I don't think they would have survived the winds we experienced.

 

[RugerTrailer]

All our customer have gone with tepui tents. No complaints from them. Maybe they'll chime in here.

 

[HuskerJeep]

I have the exact same tent as posted above and have not had it in the extreme winds as others have had, but it held up great in the 30-40mph wind gusts it was in during one trip. After fastening all of the rain fly down, it was rather loud but the structure hardly flexed. My friends that were sleeping in regular tents were jealous since theirs were folding over on them while they tried to sleep.

 

[jeepfreak81]

I had mine out in two thunderstorms, 20+ gusts and it held up great. The first storm I buttoned down the fly over the windows, the second on I didn't. Next time I would button them down again I think, only because it was much quieter inside.

 

[cchoc]

I have an Eezi Awn RTT on my AT Chaser and have camped in the Mojave and Death Valley with 50-60mph winds. A bit noisy but the tent held up perfectly. Same with sustained 55mph and 70mph gusts in SD thunderstorms. In high winds I buckle my rain fly down.