Date:         Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:34:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
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From:         Stephen Steele <steeles@HORIZONVIEW.NET>
Subject:      Re: [NVC] Do you like camping in the rain?
Comments: To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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On Oct 21, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

>
> Had a bit of green coated ripstop nylon tarp roped over the Shady Boy
> awning to bridge the gap between the awning and the rain gutter. I
> like to
> sit in the opened slider door and rain drops falling through that
> gap make
> the spot uninhabitable. But it never rained.

My solution for that gap is to slide a pipe insulation foam strip
behind the Shady Boy and press it firmly into the gap.
We have used this in several storms and no drip, drip, drip.

In dry weather and underway, I store the tube forward of the pop top
hinge mechanism and wrapped around past the poptop holddown at the
front,
on the lip of the Van's metal top.

YMMV
Stephen
chillicothe Oh