- This nifty little shelter
is the Malamoo 2-Hub Beach Shelter by Oztent.
It is a really easy shelter to set up,
really easy to pack away,
and is really steady in the wind too,
and I'm gonna take you for a walk through.
so let's check it out.
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Ben from Snowys here folks, on a warm sunny day
at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park in Adelaide.
I'm showing you some beach shelters today
despite being at the park, I'm showing you beach shelters
and this is the Malamoo 2-Hub Beach Shelter by Oztent.
Really easy to set up, really easy to pack away,
but what I'm showing you now are the features.
We start with the fabric,
so this is a 190T, a 190 thread count polyester.
It's got a UPF50+ sun rating
so it's gonna give you good protection from the sun.
And it's the same material throughout the floor
so these are 190T polyester.
The frame in the hubs on the side here,
we can see the poles that are crossing here.
This is an eight and a half millimetre fibreglass pole
and the hubs in the middle here are all metal components
so it's really well made.
Before I step inside the tent,
we'll just take a bit of a look on the outside.
So we've got just the one entrance,
the door on the front there.
As you come around to the side here,
you can see we've got a guy rope.
there's actually six points
where the shelter's anchored to the ground,
one on each corner and a guy rope on each side.
Underneath this centre point of the guy rope,
we've got a mesh panel here for ventilation,
once again mirrored on the opposite side of the tent
so we've got cross ventilation through the shelter.
Then coming around to the rear here,
you can see we've got a solid panel
that comes most of the way down
which is gonna give us that sun protection.
And then this mesh panel at the base here for ventilation
and that's actually joined to the floor on this side here.
And then across the other side here,
mirrored exactly the same as what we saw at the other end,
we got another mesh panel, we've got a guy rope,
and obviously sun protection across the top here.
And before I jump in the tent,
I just wanna talk about the sandbags
and how you might be able to use them.
Now you can loop these around the corner points here,
if you like, just by the extra fabric on there.
I'll show you how you might be able
to use it on the guy rope though,
and I'd recommend putting these on
before you actually filled them with sand.
So just loop this through the guy rope like this,
then tighten that up, loop the bag through on itself
so it's attached to the guy rope like this.
You could attach two of them if you like.
From that point, you can fill that with sand,
you could probably just leave these attached,
fill it with sand and then you can just put the sandbag
out like this, or better yet, dig a hole in the sand,
bury these sandbags in the hole
and it's gonna give you a nice secure anchor
on both sides of the tent.
That's probably gonna be enough on most days
that aren't overly windy without having to worry about
the four corner pegs.
Let's jump inside the shelter, check it out.
So I mention the floor as I get in here,
now this is actually, it's a sewn in floor,
you can't remove this so it's sewn in around
at the three sides here so it's always gonna be here.
Gives you a bit of protection from the sand underneath.
While we're at floor level,
you might be wondering what this little panel is here.
It's just there for the longevity of the tent,
there's a reinforced patch on the other side,
make sure that the poles when they're folded,
aren't wearing through the fabric.
In terms of space inside the tent,
the dimensions I get are a little bit different
than what Oztent measured.
I get slightly more than 200 centimetres in length,
about 140 centimetres in width
out to the edge of the floor here,
and about 110 centimetres in height
to where the roof kind of dips down in the middle,
so, I've got plenty of room to sit up in here,
I'm 185 centimetres so I'm gonna be able to lie down
very comfortably in here.
'Cause the sides of the tent
are reasonably upright so plenty of space.
And you could fit two people in here,
that's roughly about the width
of a standard double bed but not a lot of space
but hey, it's a good amount of space
for maybe a parent and a couple of children to sit
because you can sit right over next to the side of the tent.
Few other features inside,
firstly little storage pocket in the corner here,
just to keep your accessories or your necessities
up and out of the sand.
Obviously you can see the mesh panels
around me here for ventilation.
Just want to mention a few of
the durable manufacturing features in the tent here.
It's reinforced in behind the hub here,
where the metal sits against the fabric
so that's not rubbing.
Also where the poles come up into the actual fabric here,
they are reinforced so extra durable sleeves
that the poles sit into.
So you're not gonna get any problems
with poles wearing through fabrics and destroying your tent.
This is a really lightweight,
easy to set up, and sturdy shelter
for say a single parent to head out with their kids
for the day at the beach.
Get a nice ventilation and get some protection from the sun.
You can grab them online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices everyday.
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