 OK folks, seeing as my quest to find a second hand Terra Nova Voyager flysheet has so far proved unsuccessful (best so far has been £120 for a discontinued version direct from TN) I'm checking out how much it will be to repair. Have a quote of £17.50 - £30 plus return postage from Scottish Mountain Gear which seems very reasonable. Has anyone used them (or any other company for that matter?)
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 AT - I've not used them for tent repairs, however have bought rucsacs from them direct. Very happy with service and quality of goods. From the attached link, the folk that have used SMG for gear repairs are all agreed on good quality and service.
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Thanks Chris - having seen that thread I've just realised that that is the company that had done the repairs to another secondhand tent I got a couple of years ago (I just couldn't remember the name of the company that the chap giving me the tent had said he had used) - and they are indeed very good repairs. That's sorted then! :))
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Just to say I've now got the flysheet repaired by Scottish Mountain Gear. Haven't had a chance to test it yet but it looks very well done. Finished up costing £41 but that included postage and there are 6 patches in total so I did expect it to cost a bit more than their original estimate once they'd seen it. Very quick too - only sent it to them last Thursday. Highly recommended 
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 could you post a photo of the repair work - just interested in how they did it.
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Will do Morph - it's currently in the garden undergoing a rain test so will take a pic tomorrow!
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Morph - as promised some pics here
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 I say, those holes look spookily familiar somehow..... 
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cheers for that, quite alot of repairs i see. the reapir material looks in the pic to be exactly the same as original fabric. is this so. are the patches sewn on then seam sealed?
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Morph, The patches are unlikely to be seam-sealed - the rest of the flysheet isn't because it's silicon-coated both sides. And I'd be surprised if it was exactly the same fabric either - the tent is a TN Superlite Voyager so I don't know if exactly that fabric is available except to TN? How do I know? Well it was my tent when the flysheet got trashed!!!
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Yes, the material is either the same or a very similar material to the original. Think the patches are just stitched on. The two large patches are actually covered with two pieces of material. LOL Matt - does it bring back memories?!
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cheers, just thought theyd got a good match material.
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 Just out of curiosity Matt, how did the fly get damaged like that?
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90% stupidity, 10% bad, luck Steve I. It was last August in the Pyrenees, camped at about 2500m, in a narrow valley, pretty calm but with just occasional gusts of wind. I was packing the tent and had removed all but 2 of the pegs, ready to collapse the poles. I took my eye off it for a moment and one of those gusts came and got right underneath it, ripping out the last pegs and sending it tumbling across the ground like a giant football - it tumbled into and across a pile of boulders and the flysheet ripped where it got 'grated' between the pole and the rocks. So there were about 6 or 7 rips along the line of the over-door pole, but otherwise it survived intact.
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Ok cheers, seems it was more bad luck than anything.
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