OZtrail Starlight
Verified4 reviews
Premature review – Tents are have four basic components, inner, outer, poles and pegs. If you can not configure a tent you probably should not use one unless you are willing to learn how to which is not hard. As long as your inner tent does not touch the rain fly there will be no pooling of water. Breathing in a tent will pool if these two components touch and that… Read more
is very evident with swag tents.
Obviously with this tent the two pole at the feet and the main pole are used to separate the inner tent and rain fly. If these two touch; obviously you only need to increase the rain fly distance from inner tent using long sticks at the feet.
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So I have set it up and used it, concerned that the entire roof touched the inner tent but the sides do not touch. I contacted the seller and they have confidently told me the roof is meant to touch. I have found that one stick at the correct length can be used to lift up the center, middle tail area. I had a perfectly warm night and the tent went through a few hours rain the next day but water did not enter the tent.
absolutely poor design – Fully agree with Heidi, the OZtrail Starlight tent is unusable, even in drought stricken Queensland managed to get wet at night, fly touching the internal tent causes pooling of water at foot of tent. Took the issue to OZtrail to be told that it is normal to have condensation and I should expect it, but would not comment of encroachment of water… Read more
into tent and onto sleeping bag. Obviously they not care about their design prowess or product quality, 50 years of camping in tents and I am told this is normal!!!! Will never purchase one of their products again, indescribably poor experience.
great value – I have used my Oztrail Starlight for several cycling tours, been through several tropical storms and down pours and stayed dry. Easy to set up and pack, lightweight and compact. I would strongly recommend this tent, my only gripe is that the fly cover needs propping up at the feet as it touches the inner, however I resolved the issue quickly and very easily. Great value and would buy it again
If you like to be dry, don't get this tent! – I purchased this tent recently and returned it after one use as it is a bad design and leaks at the foot of the tent. When I first received it I set it up so I could wet it down to swell the stitching. I noticed immediately that water pooled at the foot of the tent. I tried many re-adjustments of the fly and tent to try to stop the water pooling… Read more
but nothing worked.
I thought I would take it camping anyhow and see how it went even though I was concerned it would leak. The first night I used it, we were camped in a rainforest and it drizzled a light misty rain all night, not heavy at all and no wind. The water started coming it at the foot of the tent (as I suspected it would) half way through the night and drenched our sleeping bags.
This tent is a really bad design. I bought it as I have previously had the Oztrail starlite model bought back in 2002 and it was fantastic for a budget tent. It never leaked and I practically lived in it for 3 months!
This tent was destined to fail as it doesn't have enough space between the tent and the fly and they actually touch most of the length of the tent, no matter how much re-adjusting you do.
The only good thing about this tent is the light weight (1.6kg) and small footprint, but I would glady carry in an extra 1kg if it meant sleeping dry. I was very disappointed!!!
Oztrail have really let themselves down with this tent! It should be taken off the market!
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