*THE RTT Owners Thread (With BS)*

Yeah, that's why I was saying a bigger (taller) cover would be sweet as you'd have the extra room to store stuff on TOP of the tent when it's closed up.

Just slide/unslide it like normal. Retain most of the zipper without fully undoing it.

 

ahh ok yeah. I hear what you're saying now. I'd just be very careful if you don't have the ruggedized version.

 

You left the annex on and you were able to fold it up still? Holy hell i need to go try that. I dont have a tepui/cvt but i gotta see.. ive used my annex like once in 2 years

 

Maybe I'll get a wild hair after a couple beers tonight and take some pictures for those of you who are interested.

 

DO IT. for the OP's sake

 

I have a question for you guys.

This may seem like a noob question, but I just want to see if I'm on the same page as everyone else.

When you extend your latter, do you set it up so that is is load-bearing? In other words, so most of the weight is on the ladder instead of the hinges/tent fabric?

 

The idea (at least when i set mine up) is to yes, have the ladder on something solid and stable. You'll find that it feels 10x more comfortable crawling/moving around up there.

 

Okay, cool.

That's what I've always done, just because it made sense to me. But, I own one of maybe four RTT's in the state of Maine, and wasn't sure what the standard procedure was.

I agree that it feels much more stable. Definitely the way to go.

Thanks!

 

As promised...

Fully clothed...


Showing a little skin...


Boom. Money shot.


You can see how we folded the bulk of the annex to be on the sides of the ladder.





Obligatory hinge shot.




And that folks, is how it's done.

 

Im digging that.. gonna have to attempt something like that

 

Another question.

How do the sliding ladders work?
Vs. the telescoping. Are they load bearing?

 

Still a fan for a bigger cover!!! Folded up, the base is more then strong enough to hold more light weight bulky items IMO.

 

Is your annex 3 sided or 4 sided? I have the CVT Mount Bachelor with a 4 sided annex. The cover has lots of room so I will have to try and fit it next time I have it open.

 

4 sides.

 

@1MK gotcha... yeah I think the black cover is "a little bigger" than the grey one... but don't know for sure. I know the one I have is pretty baggy... (still haven't swapped in the new bases or new cover) when I get the new bases on and new cover on (old one has holes) I'll check to see if I could store a camp chair up there...

 

Broke in the Mt. Rainier last weekend, this thing is huge! Love the bigger than Cali King size mattress.


Some takeaways from my first couple weeks with it:

1. My roof rack bars, and I'm sure other as well, we're not completely level. My front bar was about a quarter inch to low due to the curvature of my SnugTop shell roof, so I made some acrylic spacers to put between the tracks of the RTT and Yakima bars, I built them like this so there was no way they could slip off.



2. The floor of the tent is softer than you would think. I was moving around on my hands and knees without the mattress in for a couple minutes before I realized I was putting lots of indentations all over the floor, some about an eighth of an inch deep. Probably just cosmetic I hope, but still frustrating, so if working in the tent, distribute your weight with the mattress or a piece of plywood/rubber mat if the mattress is out.

3. The tent came full of aluminum shavings from the manufacturing process, I filled up about 2-3 shot glasses worth of shavings over the course of opening and closing the tent around 5 times. A little frustrating that CVT doesn't vacuum this out well enough and ream and vacuum the through holes on the floor that most of the shavings seem to come from, I wouldn't want to have that stuff hung up in the mattress or rubbing and putting small slices all over the canvas where it meets the floor.

4. The black cover gets HOT!!! This is not a design flaw or something that can be avoided, I know this, but CVT does offer Grey and Tan PVC covers, which if I had the choice I definitely would have picked instead of the default black with no choice for another color. CVT should ask their customers which color PVC color they prefer if ordering direct from them, like I did. I didn't know they had other color PVC covers until after my tent arrived and I saw some different colors on their Instragram.

5. I am going to file down the sharp edges of the bottom of the ladder, they are already starting to put some wear on the inside of the PVC cover. CVT did reinforce this exact area though with an extra layer of PVC, so kudos to that design feature.

6. Their anti-condensation mats were on back order when I got my tent, but they seem like a must have after my first night in the tent. My first night out was in SoCal, cool to cold temps and super damp on the beach, with little to no wind, and there was a lot of moisture under the mattress in the morning when stowing it. Granted those are challenging conditions for any tent when it comes to condensation build up. I am looking into a rechargeable, small fan to hang inside to combat all the condensation build up my wife and I had.

7. Staking or weighting the corners of the annex is a must if any wind is present. We had a small breeze throughout the night, and without the edges staked the annex bottom was slowly but loudly dragging all over the place, waking us up and driving me crazy.

8. The mattress was surprisingly comfortable for its thickness, no complaints there.

Hope this helps some, regardless of what I wrote up above I love this tent and it looks well built.

 

Can we see a pic of it opened up?! I'm trying to decide between tan or olive green for my tent

 

I don't have any with the annex attached yet.

Oceano Dunes by The Adventure Continues, on Flickr

 

I'm in the process of convincing my dad to get a rtt

 

I went with Olive green. I really like it a lot.