Thread: Hannibal awning in the rain

Are you talking about the awning over the tent entry or a pull out awning from the car?

If its a car awning just shorten one pole and extend the other and the water just runs off down the slope.

Originally Posted by ugu80

Are you talking about the awning over the tent entry or a pull out awning from the car?

If its a car awning just shorten one pole and extend the other and the water just runs off down the slope.

i assume it was the awning off the side of the car......which means it has no poles to adjust

if i ever get a hannibal i would get a strip of material stitched in to suit a fiberglass pole used on dome tent........slid the pole in, make it bow upwards, would need two holes drilled

i kinda figured hannibal would have had complaints by now, maybe it doesn't rain in sout africa

I've had it a few times that its happened I've stopped just right, releasing the Velcro on one corner and not having the canvas tuck over like it should, the water has run off perfectly.
This hasn't happened every time though. I also have the tent so obviously do try to keep vehicle as level as possible.
Kenley

No support poles, I'll be damned. Just looked at their website, that's seriously strong looking side supports. The upper struts look squarish on the photos. I have an Oz tent with a cross brace for the awning. The cross brace is an extendible lightweight aluminium pole with plastic lips at either end (to place over the upright poles). A simple solution, if I may suggest, might be to get the extension pole (they are purchasable singularly) and firmly jam it by the lips between the upper awning supports which would push the canvas slightly higher over the cross brace and support the centre of the canvas. There are holes in the lips, maybe a cable tie through the hole and around the upper support for just a little extra security to keep it in place.

Kenleyfred - Nice and simple - I'll give this a try first - the water always pools near the rear outer corner so this might be the best solution.

Weeds - elegant, I like it. Storing the pole would be too easy - in with the bag of bits for the tent or even, because it'd be thin enough, in the awning gear itself. Stitching might be a little beyond me though.

ugu80 - this could work well if the pole extends to the correct length and it keeps the canvas high enough over the top brace. Nice thinking.

Thanks guys, keep it coming.

Bobby

I posted something about this Issue late last year.

Before I ever became a agent for Hannibal Products, I was always a huge fan of this awning its, fantastic, and having no poles or guide ropes to mess with is even better. The issues with water pooling and run off is something that we have been looking at resolving, the telescopic tent type fibre poles in a cross pattern looks like a possible solution, having a number of seams stitched in for these poles is what we were looking at.


We are also working on a flap for between the rack and awning as this lets in alot of water when its heavy rain, as would any other awning, I have been in some extreme rain conditions with the Hannibal and its been up to the job, you cant predict what way the rains going to come down so this is not a awning fault.

You could also use a singe pole in the middle on a square block, or tilt the awning at one end.

Originally Posted by The Cone of Silence

Kenleyfred - Nice and simple - I'll give this a try first - the water always pools near the rear outer corner so this might be the best solution.

Weeds - elegant, I like it. Storing the pole would be too easy - in with the bag of bits for the tent or even, because it'd be thin enough, in the awning gear itself. Stitching might be a little beyond me though.

ugu80 - this could work well if the pole extends to the correct length and it keeps the canvas high enough over the top brace. Nice thinking.

Thanks guys, keep it coming.

Bobby

Not sure if the side bars are square or round but a twist lock pole with C clip ends or even a spigot at both ends (requiring a 8mm hole to be drilled into the side supports) would be a solution. The twist lick pole is easily stored (could even be rolled up in the awning)

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If the off the shelf items are not suitable you can buy a pole and some new ends - remove existing ends and replace with correct ones.

Cheers,

Franz

Buy one of those small plastic mushrooms, put it on top of a pole and push up the middle of the awning. The water runs off the outer edges. Cheap and simple. The only downside is that there's a pole in the way, but this isn't really a problem when you're snug inside the roof top tent.