Hey, I just bought the Voyager Superlite wanting to lighten the load of my rather large backpack. I was wondering if anyone else who owns one knows why there are 12 pegs included while so far as I can tell, there are 13 places to peg out? 2 on the door, 6 on the pole ends, 2 guy ropes, 3 at the back. Anyone having the same problem, or am I just being a fool?
I only got 11 pegs with my recently purchased Voyager SL (just counted). Terra Nova obviously just grab a bundle of pegs and stuff them in the peg bag without bothering to count. Or maybe their 'peg person' is innumerate!
Fortunately I have some Alpkit Tykes upstairs so I'll chuck a couple of those in.
Haven't really looked at this yet but with my quasar you used the same pegs to hold the door flap out as the guidelines from off the corners so maybe the set up could be quite similar. Then maybe I'm just wrong.
I too got a few pegs short when I got mine, however if you email them and tell them you want the right amount of pegs they will send you them, trust me! They are a nice bunch and will do anything to keep you and you TN tent happy. Top choice btw, brilliant tent!
I used this tent with my wife for 6 months pretty much solidly last summer to hike the continental divide trail in the US.
The pegs are great, very light and you only need 7- 3 at the rear, 2 for the guys and 2 to peg the porch. A good tip on hard or stony ground is to use a trekking pole/ice axe to hold down the front porch by inserting it horizontally thru the porch bungees then loading it with rocks. This worked in severe storms. Using this technique you could get by with 5 pegs!
I love the tent but did find 2 main problems:
1. I have used the normal voyager before and have concerns with the SL's waterproofness. After about 4 hours heavy rain it leaked through the roof. The inner is so thin that drips from the outer go straight thru the inner. We used seam sealer but the rain seemed to come right thru the fabric. The normal Voyager was much better. So I guess the SL is a compromise between lightweight and weatherproofness.
2.All the zips broke over the space of 6 months. The first on the inner after a month. We were in dusty, gritty country and that's what seems to go for the zips. We didn't use lubricant so it might be a good idea to lubricate the zips , perhaps after the summer each year in normal use.
We also had a pole break on us after 2 months - it split at the end of one of the pole sections. I think though that it broke through normal wear and tear.
