by One Planet » Wed 27 Jan, 2010 10:52 am
The Gunyah tent series have been designed for 3 season use; a single pole tent, for the weight conscious bushwalker, amongst the lightest tents by size on the market. I can understand people may question the strength of a 15D fabric, as we did with 40D, 30D and 20D.
We cannot make a tent around this weight without some sacrifices, i.e. size, small vestibules, mesh inners and this may not suit some people or some environments and there is no doubt that some care and common sense should be exercised when using.
We have tested, produced and sold the Gunyah series over 2 years; I am yet to see anything to suggest we should move away from using 15D. We will continue to use 15D Sil/Pu fabrics in our ultra light tents. Having said this I anticipate that 15D fabric will deteriorate at a slightly higher rate than higher denier fabrics when exposed to UV, along with Humans one of the biggest killers of tents. So don’t leave it in the midday sun, but that goes for all light weight tents.
Cheers
Andrew King