Beach Tent Tips

A beach tent is a temporary solution for travelers, cyclists, as well as good protection from the midday heat somewhere in nature, on the coast of the sea, river or lake.

By itself, the beach tent is designed so that it passes air. Vacationers are "open to all winds", which is why it is always fresh inside. But it passes water: it will not protect from rain, it is absolutely impossible to put it in a puddle. How quickly it gets wet when it rains, how quickly it will dry when the rain stops.

A beach tent is necessary for people with white skin and a significant number of freckles or moles, as well as for those who have a hereditary predisposition to skin cancer, but who cannot deny themselves the pleasure of being in the sea air, lying on the beach.

If you go outdoors with small children, they also need protection from the bright sun and heat. And for some adults, especially the elderly, who have high blood pressure in the heat, such a tent will be a real salvation.

The purpose of a beach tent is to shelter from direct contact with sunlight. If you climb into a black matte tent in the summer heat, it will be even worse inside than outside - it will turn into a real stove. This effect is good only in winter, when the sun's rays are weak and slanting, on a frosty but clear day, the heat collected on a black awning can warm it up to room temperature and even higher, which will increase the temperature inside.

In this regard, only light, “reflecting” material is used for the production of beach tents - for maximum reflection of sunlight, avoiding overheating. If you could not find a white tent, purchase a light-colored product.

The cheapest beach tents - single layer. The awning in them is most often made like a regular sheet, but entirely from breathable synthetics. Double-layer tents better protect from the heat - between the layers there is an air void, which acts as a kind of heat insulator that does not allow the heating of the tent inside.

Not every fan will go hiking or to the beach with a hurricane wind. Since beach tents do not have a front wall (the product is, in fact, a dead-end arch), it will simply be blown away by the wind from this side.And if it is in a different direction, it is unlikely to stand - for ordinary tents with walls on all sides, wind resistance is ensured not only by arcs and pegs, but also due to the fact that the walls, being connected at the corners, also hold each other, not giving disperse the tent.

You can't do without an additional removable floor. Since the tent is beach, the ideal place would be a sandy beach, not a rocky one, especially not a field with dry weeds or cut reeds, easily piercing the material from which the tent is made.

If the awning is still waterproof, it makes sense to put it with its “back” to the wind, which will somehow protect vacationers from the rain, and also will not allow it to fly away in strong winds. But the beach tents have a mesh around the perimeter. - from the point of view of ventilation, regardless of the direction of the wind, this is rather a plus than a minus. If the rain is slanting and turned into a downpour, a large puddle will quickly gather on the floor (water will flow in through the net), and this will reduce the rain protection to almost nothing.

To protect yourself from the rain, it still makes sense to use not a beach tent, but an ordinary tourist tent. In their cheap models, protection from water is thought out, and ventilation will be provided by a mosquito net located on the back wall of the tent and adjacent to the floor, protected by a special exhaust curtain that prevents rainwater from getting inside.

A beach tent most often has enough space in which two or three adults or several children can hide from the sun.Accommodating a larger number of people, such as a large family, will most likely require a versatile multi-person tent with amenities that are not found in a beach tent.

The Keumer product is a self-folding "automatic" tent, mass-produced in China, this model can be ordered on AliExpress. The tent is designed for 1-2 people. The material of the awning is nylon with a water resistance of 3000 mm. water. Art., protects from slanting rains, coinciding in direction with the side where the tent is turned "back". The rods are made mainly of steel, the product opens automatically. Unfolded dimensions - 200 * 120 * 130 cm, The kit includes pegs for fixing the tent and a bag for transporting it. Folded weight - 1200 gr.

The Sport Brella tent has several modifications, but they are all exclusively of the umbrella type. In fact, this is a large umbrella with elongated sides, the main support of which, like an ordinary umbrella, is the central axis-cane, made in the form of a telescopic "transformer". The BYU-519 model with an umbrella radius of 120 cm allows you to quickly (in a matter of seconds) deploy a shelter and protect yourself from direct or oblique (rear) rain, but it will not replace a full-fledged shelter - for this, there are semi- and quarter-spherical "tents" with a complex 4-wall shelter, the front of which is a door.

The Sport Brella umbrella tents are equipped with retractable sidewalls, fixed (in order to prevent the umbrella from being blown away by strong winds) on the sand or the ground with the help of pegs threaded into the holder loops.A peg is also provided for the central support - its fixation makes the umbrella tent quite stable. There is no floor, the frame material is stainless steel, the awning (umbrella shell) is waterproof polyester.

Installation height - at least 120 cm, which is quite enough for adult seated "inhabitants". Folded size - 142 * 23 * 21 cm, no heavier than a modern compact fishing spinning rod. Sold in Chinese online stores.

The Green Glade Sandy beach awning is a tent with a frame of two arches, vaguely resembling a tent tilted backwards, but equipped with two crossed arches made of steel and fiberglass with a pipe diameter of 7 mm.

If it had a front wall with a door, this tent would have gone beyond a standard hemisphere - in terms of execution, it is similar to the usual hemispherical-umbrella shelter Outventure Monodome 2. Possesses own sex unlike most Sport Brella products, which allows not only to install this shelter on the beach sand, but also to use it in nature. Waterproof awning with 800 mm. water. Art. pressure will protect against drizzling rain.

It has 8 pegs, the weight of the whole product is 1.9 kg, sand is poured into the outer pockets, which will give Green Glade Sandy additional wind resistance. When folded, the design occupies a space with dimensions of 63 * 12 * 10, the height of the installed shelter is up to 120 cm. To improve ventilation, the seams in beach tents are not glued.

Choosing any of the beach tents, first of all, you protect yourself from the action of the not always beneficial sun.Going to sunbathe for the whole day without the opportunity to find shelter and wait most of the day under it, you will bring yourself to the strongest total burn of the skin, leading to weakness, pain that does not subside for a minute and fever for several days, and washing even under a cool shower will turn into torture these days.

In the next video you will find a review of a budget beach tent from Aliexpress.