Early 2020 I bought a new flysheet, this time of the non-UltraLight type.
I actually had to which you can read all about in the Review part 2.
That flysheet started to crack spontaniouslyalready at the beginning of the 2021 season.
So actually already after just one (2020) season.
After the first crack I tought I had made some wrong move somehow but more and more cracks appeared.
Sometimes when I just touched the tent in a very normal way but also when I had not touched the tent at all all day.
I tried to "repair" the cracks with special tape and also with less special tape.
However the tapes happened to stick only a little bit at there first appliance but loosened themselfs every day a (lesser) bit.
So I had to force them on again day after day and depending on whether they had collected dust and sand that worked "somewhat".
However, in autumn 2021 the flysheet cracked already spontaniously when I just touched the tent.
Arrggghhhh 1.
I also noticed more and more very small holesin the flysheet (and some less small ones).
Although I never caught anything nibbling in action it must have been ants regarding the size and shape of the holes.
This did not happen to the UL-version of the flysheet I had first.
To my idea this happened in just quiet a short period (and not before and not afterwards).
In other words, ants of a specific species and on a specific location have enjoyed my tent.
The outertent that is, luckily not the innertent.
Nevertheless Arrggghhhh 2.
Then the zipper of the innertent gave up.
By the end of the 2020 season it showed already it had a problem and so early 2021
I had a new original zipperrunner installed which worked oké.
But by the end of the 2021 season that zipper obviously was completely at it's end of life.
I adapted myself to using the complete tent just the other way around (horizontally I mean) and that was oké also.
The two runners were holding that innerdoor "closed" a bit but the luck (... ...)
was that there are hardly an(t)y insects left in Portugal.
I sewed the complete zipper (which was a two-hour job) over it's complete length which did the trick.
Arrggghhhh 3.
In the meantime the velcros had givenup that hold the ventilationpoles at the top of both entrances
of the outertent.
That is, the construction of it is rather complex.
But the real problem is that the rasping part of the velcro is actually installed at the wrong part,
namely at the innerside of the flysheet, just along it's edge.
Now that they had given up the poles loosened themselfs and the rasping velcro became unprotected.
Which you don't notice since they are at the inside.
By the time I finally realised this was a real problem it was already too late.
The back of all my new t-shirts were damaged by that velcro.
Arrggghhhh 4.
