Club Arnage

Might be of interest to our US freinds coming over, seems to be quite a good deal at £35 for 2 people.
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3409086/Trail/C%24cip%3D36237.Sports%2Band%2Bleisure%3EC%24cip%3D36238.Camping%2Band%2Bcaravaning%3EC%24PROMOTION%3D1.On%2BSpecial%2BOffer.htm
If anybody needs any help in securing a set let me know (would not be able to transport them to LM though (a bit restricted in the MG!)), but I'm sure we could sort something out.
This deal only runs until 25th April.

I may have some extra space going out (from Bristol) - not quite sure yet depends how many cars we're taking out.

I've also got a few spare sleeping mats that I can take out if anyone wants to borrow one. 

I definitely WILL have space.  Only me and my gear in 4-seater estate.  Leaving God's country (30 miles S of Bristol) on Sunday 11th, A303, M3, M25(S) and on to Dover.  Can't bring anything back though - I will have 1600kgs of caravan on the back - plenty of space but too close to weight limit for comfort, especially as I will have many kilos of liquids to bring back!

Del

Del - I'll give you a wave on the way - I'm also off on the 11th!   ;D

As are we, Afternoon sailing Pompy Caen, Late night arrival on the slow boat. MB on the Monday

It's certainly a good deal if the weather is OK, but it looks like it is a single skin summer tent (like Les had at Sebring last year) so won't stand up to much rain! (Les' transformed from a tent into a pond!!)

Why does everyone keep mentioning the weather?? Rain does not fit in with my plan of lazing in the sun and cooling off in the pool and so will not be allowed

Rob
Its quite simply really.  if you want it sunny and hot, sod's law says the more you speak sunny the less chance it will happen and she will dump huge amounts of cold wet stuff down on us.  So enough already, less of the sunny weather.  FS

We'll probably meet up in the traffic jam on the M25 - what are you driving?  I'm leaving fairly early - to catch 10.40 speedferry crossing.  Sh*t, I've just worked out I will have to leave by 6.30 am.  Delete the 'fairly' above!!

Del

we usually leave the house before 5am!! This year the ferry is not until 4pm, and it is only 1 hours drive :-)

Your probably right Mark, LM rain can almost match that of Florida rain (watched the 2001 video again the other day!!), maybe a stand by emergency Tarpaulin from Carrefour would be a good idea, but a double skinned tent for a single trip would be quite a bit more expensive.

Yep I reckon we'll be in the same jam!  We're heading for a Sea France crossing that is around 11am so we're planning for a 6am departure!   Add in that I'm working the GP at Silverstone Thursday pm, Friday and Saturday and it's all going to be a bit rushed! 

They'll be me and Simon (Keithk will already be out there) in a black Saab 93 hatch with a black roofbox adorned with Club Arnage stickers!  What about you?  (thread drift anyone?!)

Just me in silver-grey Audi A4 estate adorned with ACO membership stickers and, of course, old and new CA stickers.

Will look out for you.

Del

Fab - we're either picking up another passenger or another car in Dover so we'll almost have ourselves a convoy!   Are you going all the way down on the Sunday?

I thought the thread drift was camping gear from Argos!  but I could be mistaken!  ???

To bring the thread back on topic  ;D   if you want to buy a cheap tent have a look at http://www.e-awnings.co.uk/ and search for Coleman bi-space, they've got the 300 for £30 which is a giveaway.

Coleman make great tents and this would last the course even at the wettest Le Mans (and yes I always plan for the worst weather and everything else is a bonus  ;D 

Agreed, Coleman make great camping gear.  As do Gelert, got a great bagin last year with a vario lokon 4.  Approx 6 x 3 x 2 metres, £140 through ebay, but lots of other web hits out there.  Could have had a disco inside.  Just as a suggestion if anyone is needing a tent.

Good advice, and never drink more than last year, and never less

I'm supposed to remember how much I drank last year  ??? ;D

Hell no!!! :o :o :o If you can remember how much you had to drink then you obviously didn't drink enough!!!   ;D

Thanks for the tip Piglet! That's a great tent for the money. Is anyone else interested in one (that won't nede it until Le Mans) as I am going to order one  for myself and P&P on one is £7.50 but if you order two P&P is free!!

No problem JPC, it looks like a great deal, I was tempted myself until I looked at the other five tents in the garage and decided perhaps I didn't need yet another one!!

Shhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!  Mrs JP may see your post and discover the three I already have in the garage!

I quite like the idea of a tent that I can walk into though (albeit crouched) and if the bad weather that we are due one year soon does turn up, then at least you aren't walking into your sleeping area straight from outside so hopefully your airbed/sleeping bag won't get drenched!

Perhaps a gazebo from B&Q for £12 would help

>Martini...

Nah Martini, we bought a cheap carrefour gazebo last year - we really needed the shade so it was fantastic BUT we spent the whole blooming time tying the bloody thing back down!!

We bought one of these http://www.worldofcamping.co.uk/shop/Detail.asp?ProductID=931

God I'm such a sad cow  ;D

Anita, that looks cosy!!!  is it for parties of one :D

Looks like there isn't a great deal of privacy in that, Piglet.  Which site are you on??

Del

Your right Mark, having a decent amount of headroom makes allthe difference, Brad and I's is actually ment to be a 5 (small) man tent, but with the 2 of us its ideal and the porch area is great for storage and wet gear.

It's 3m x 3m even my arse isn't big enough to fill that on its own!  ;D ;)

You do realise that vqdave will want a picture to prove that for his website!!  ;)

Can't wait to see Piggywiggy in her official track marshall gruppen furher very tight orange coverall with the hiking boots thick socks and covered in badges, yum

Wow - you've seen the pictures!!   Keithk and I first really met in the middle of the night in Spa pitlane where I was working the night shift and wearing fourteen layers of clothing including Spa's attractive "bin man" overalls, having not slept for two days - it must have been an attractive sight (not!)

Wow - you've seen the pictures!!   Keithk and I first really met in the middle of the night in Spa pitlane where I was working the night shift and wearing fourteen layers of clothing including Spa's attractive "bin man" overalls, having not slept for two days - it must have been an attractive sight (not!)


T0 personal to relate here, remind me to tell you about some of my encounters wearing thick ocean sailing kit in the middle of the oggin,  ohhh, i'm getting all soft in the knees just thinking about it. :P :P :P

You need to have those conversations with Keith, he sailed a lot and I'd hate to hear some of the stories!!  I'll let you boys have those conversations!! :o ;D

PIGLET dosn't do the "track marshall gruppen" and I stopped sailing some years back, done a few days out in the USA with friends and at Cowes week, just to get some salt air...

We've bought one of these from Argos

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3409158.htm

Had a test erection :o, goes up easy as anything and the seams on the flysheet are even taped, with a 2000mm hydrostatic head. (You need a 2 metre pile of water for it to leak.

I may turn it upside down and use it as a boat if it really pisses down.

If you ask nicely, I'll throw you a lilo ;D

There isn't a pump for the airbeds. I think I'll give dad the job of blowing them up. Last time I did an airbed I blew so hard I went into the future and had to lie down until everything else caught up.

Can't better it for value, me and Dad get a bedroom each. Which is good.

He's a dad, he snores and farts.

So am I

So do I

Highly recommended:

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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005JD3Z/002-9593377-0543267?v=glance&n=3375251

I've got one of those and it struggles with inflatable chairs and sofas etc. Doesn't really blow them up fully. My mate had a mains version last year and it's the business. You need electricity though  ::)

Hmm.  I borrowed a friend's at S****** to fill up my (twin) air mattress and it seemed to do o.k, considering it's battery-powered.  I blew up the last 2% or so myself, but I liked that a whole lot more than the full 100%.

I'll take $15 over a brain hemhorrage any day.  ;D