So, I have a Vango Orchy 500 on it's way to me to use with my family.
It looks like this:
Now, the size of it is fine however for longer camping trips (which is coming up soon!) I think getting an extension on it would be a great idea, especially with two yojung kids and potentially needing extra living space for rainy days, etc.
Unfortunately being a discontinued model, there is no extension available right now that is a guaranteed fit so it's relying on the second hand market to find something (cursing as I missed an absolute bargain earlier in the week!)
Doing copious amounts of research and searching I think I may have a plan that will work and wanted to run it by some other gear geeks (
) to see if you spotted any glaring errors!
So, exhibit 1 is the Orchy 600.
Obviously a bit bigger than the 500 but the same shape.
Exhibit 2 is someone selling a Maritsa 600 Canopy Extension that they used with an Orchy 600.
I think that's a good fit and they were obviously happy with it.
this is the Maritsa 600 canopy stock picture:
That canopy would be too big for my 500 but I have seen a Marano 400 canopy extension
Looks pretty similar to that Marista, doesn't it. I think it would be easy to mistake the two in a picture, but presumably a difference in size as one's for a 600 the other a 400.
I hope you're keeping up.
Now, just to do some more checking I took the blueprint of the Orchy 600 and the blueprint of the Marista 600, scaled them correctly against each other then overlaid them so I could see how it worked for the person who did it.
I then did the same for my proposed Orchy 500 with Marano 400.
What do you think? Any glaring issues that you could see? I'm not expecting a 100% seal but in my mind it looks workable.
Thanks!
It looks like this:
Now, the size of it is fine however for longer camping trips (which is coming up soon!) I think getting an extension on it would be a great idea, especially with two yojung kids and potentially needing extra living space for rainy days, etc.
Unfortunately being a discontinued model, there is no extension available right now that is a guaranteed fit so it's relying on the second hand market to find something (cursing as I missed an absolute bargain earlier in the week!)
Doing copious amounts of research and searching I think I may have a plan that will work and wanted to run it by some other gear geeks (
) to see if you spotted any glaring errors!So, exhibit 1 is the Orchy 600.
Obviously a bit bigger than the 500 but the same shape.
Exhibit 2 is someone selling a Maritsa 600 Canopy Extension that they used with an Orchy 600.
I think that's a good fit and they were obviously happy with it.
this is the Maritsa 600 canopy stock picture:
That canopy would be too big for my 500 but I have seen a Marano 400 canopy extension
Looks pretty similar to that Marista, doesn't it. I think it would be easy to mistake the two in a picture, but presumably a difference in size as one's for a 600 the other a 400.
I hope you're keeping up.
Now, just to do some more checking I took the blueprint of the Orchy 600 and the blueprint of the Marista 600, scaled them correctly against each other then overlaid them so I could see how it worked for the person who did it.
I then did the same for my proposed Orchy 500 with Marano 400.
What do you think? Any glaring issues that you could see? I'm not expecting a 100% seal but in my mind it looks workable.
Thanks!
