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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Camping Equipment | Kodiak Canvas Tents

Kodiak Canvas Tents vs. Traditional Material Tents.


Kodiak Canvas Tents are among our top sellers on our website. These tents tend to be more pricey than traditional tents, even when comparing tents of the same size. This will be a short post just to explain some differences between canvas and traditional synthetic material tents.

Canvas Tents, to start off with, tend to be a lot heavier than other tents. Most of the weight is due to the canvas material, which is a very thick and heavy fabric. To give an example, the 6055 10 x 10 ft tent we carry weighs about 75 lbs. whereas a tent with the traditional synthetic material of the same size would weigh around half of that 75 lbs. Because the fabric is so heavy, the pole structure also tends to be a lot heavier than the synthetic tents, since those tents tend to have poles that are skinny and held together by a narrow bungee cord like cable making them very light weight.

Another point to consider with purchasing a canvas tent is that canvas tents do night wick water on the inside. If you are a regular camper and use a synthetic material for your tent, you have probably noticed in the mornings that water has accumlated on the inside of the tent. This is because most synthetic tents do not breath through the walls, meaning the water vapor you exhale while you sleep gets trapped on the inside of the tent because the air is unable to escape. Canvas, while still being water proof, tends to be a lot more breathable so you do not get that kind of water accumulation on the inside.

Finally, while you might pay upwards of $100 or more for a comparable sized canvas tent, canvas tends to have a lot longer life than other tents. For that reason, Kodiak Canvas Tents offer a limited lifetime warranty on their units. This tends to eliminate fear of tears and weaknesses in the construction of synthetic tents since all parts of the tent are built to high standards of construction. To emphasize this point of how well constructed these tents are, our supplier recently had a contract with the United State military where the government purchased 100 of these tents and sent them for the Army to use in the Middle East where the climate can be very harsh.

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