For Sale Helsport Blefjell 4 Tent for sale

[austin]

NOW SOLD.

I am having a clear out of my camping cupboard. As we bought (another) new tent this year, this one has to go. Probably the only one in the UK and no longer available anywhere. Its a great tent form a quality Norwegian manufacturer. I got this in 2016 as a replacement under guarantee when the zips failed on my other Helsport Tent - after 5 years. The company really does stand by the quality of its products.

I need to get it up and cleaned (just wiped down really) so no sale pics just yet but I might be able to find some of it in use. Although spec'd as a 4-man tent its luxury for two with plenty room either side for bags and gear and two reasonable size vestibules for boots, wet gear, stoves etc. The vestibules are a bit too small for sitting in, although the main tent has good head room. Includes a proper made for the tent footprint. Zips etc all work fine. Easy enough to put up by yourself - I always do. Its fee standing although better with 4 pegs. With all the pegs and guying points in use it is stable in all but the strongest of winds. I did have slight weep of water in one of the seams but have since seam-sealed it and it was completely watertight in some torrential thunderstorms in France and Spain last year.

New, these cost around £600 in 2016. I will take £150 posted.

If you google the tent you will most come up with some European retailers, reviews and videos. Use translate feature. Here's the tent on Helsport's website (I had to use google Cache to find it but the english language version seems to have gone).
Helsport Helsport Blefjell 4

 

[austin]

Here's the tent in use....

Spain (Picos) last year.

Scotland 2016

 

[Lord Vader]

Jeez you camped at some rubbish places

 

[austin]

Jeez you camped at some rubbish places

I keep the best one's to myself

 

[austin]

OK so the tent is up in the garden and here's some pics.

General Views.

There's three poles: a long ridge pole and two identical transverse poles.

The tent is free standing with the poles in place. That means you can start to pitch it where you have space and then move it around to where you want the tent to be pitched. Useful on some camp sites. You could even sleep in it without any pegs but a peg at each end adds stability. In these pics I have put in 6 pegs around the base and two guy ropes are out as it is very windy here today. There are two types of pegs included: simple skewers for the pegging out and nice red ali V stakes for guys. There are a total of 16 pegging points so it aint going to blow away.

The groundsheet protector clips onto the tent and fills the gap in the two vestibule areas. The tent goes up in one - Flysheet, Inner and Protector all remain attached.

Both inner doors are the same and have a full zip all the way round so open very wide. There is mesh on both doors so you can have an airy and bug free inner. The full zip also means you can have the door half open for even more air.

The inner is about 135 cm high at the centre. I can kneel up or squat in it easily. Yellow interior is nice and cheery. There's tabs at the end and middle to add a gear loft or just to string a washing line or two.

Pockets in each corner.

Option for Mesh Inner door (same at both ends)

Exterior Ventilation - with mesh to keep the bugs out.

Neat storage for the guy ropes.

The outer doors are different at each end. Earlier pics above show the end where just one side door opens. The other end - pics below - both side doors open, one door has additional mesh for yet more bug free ventilation, the other door has a small ventilation screen at the top and plastic window with a cover for light and to peep out the tent from.

When I take it down I will add some pics of it packed in its bag.

If you look closely you can see some white residue on the seams. This is the seam sealant I applied "in the field" in Scotland a couple of years ago. I was bit clumsy so it got smeared a bit more than it should have done and then turned white in the sun in Spain. It may rub off and some the surplus is flaking away anyway. Whatever it stopped a slight weep through a couple of the seams on that trip. It never leaked before and hasn't leaked since.

 

[austin]

and now packed up....