Cole­man Weath­er­Mas­ter Screened 6 Per­son Tent Review

 

Set Up of the  Cole­man WeatherMaster

Set­ting up the Cole­man Weath­er­Mas­ter Screened 6 Tent was quite an easy task com­pared to most 6 per­son tents, and I did it alone. A much shorter per­son could also set it up solo, although an extra set of hands would make the process a lit­tle quicker.  Color coded poles and the con­tin­u­ous pole sleeves are a cou­ple of rea­sons for the sim­plic­ity of the set up. The pin and ring design and the Insta-clip attach­ments also sim­plify the process. The instruc­tions, sewn into the carry bag, are as easy to fol­low as they could pos­si­bly be, but we here at Fam­ily Tent Reviews are  rather expe­ri­enced in tent assem­bly. Those inex­pe­ri­enced in tent set up should have few prac­tice runs in the back­yard to make sure things will go smoothly on camp­ing day.  Dis-assembly was sim­ple as well. The real shocker was how easy I got the tent back into the carry bag with­out even fold­ing it up very neatly.

Weather Resis­tance of the WeatherMaster

You can be assured with a name like Weath­er­mas­ter that this tent will hold up to the ele­ments. On a recent camp­ing trip I set this Cole­man up for some young rel­a­tives, it rained for nearly the whole week and not a drop made its way inside. I did use an extra tarp under the tent as I always do, although the water­proof floors prob­a­bly would have held up on their own. Made of weather resis­tant fab­ric coated with poly­ester and web­bing and zip­pers designed to keep water out you are sure to remain dry dur­ing rainy weather. The rain fly is large enough to  cover the doors and win­dows. The wind strong frame was engi­neered to  hold up to pretty strong winds. The screened room and all mesh ceil­ing greatly increase ven­ti­la­tion help­ing to cool down the tent,which are my favorite fea­tures while camp­ing in South Texas. An air flow port is also built into the tent, but most tents have these now days. There are lots of win­dows to help keep you cools as well.

Size of the  Weath­er­maser 6 Per­son Tent

The Cole­man Weath­er­mas­ter 6 is designed for sleep­ing six peo­ple. It can do this , but it will be rather tight. five will fit more com­fort­ably. When set up it mea­sures sev­en­teen feet by nine feet. At  36 pounds it is rather heavy if you plan on back­pack­ing it very far. The tent has two inte­rior rooms which is good for pri­vacy or hav­ing a recre­ation are for cards, eat­ing, etc. There is one out­side screened area that is great for get­ting away from the bugs or just get­ting some shade.there are two doors, one of which is actu­ally hinged. The ceil­ing is rather high at over 70 inches in center.

Addi­tional Features

The air cool port is a cool fea­ture for run­ning exten­sion cords or reach­ing out­side of the tent to reach the cooler.  The all mesh ceil­ing offers a nice view if you have the rain­fly off. There is a loop on the ceil­ing for hang­ing lights.

Cons of the Cole­man WeatherMaster

The stakes are not the best qual­ity. They never are any­more regard­less of which tent you buy. I always rec­om­mend buy­ing addi­tional stakes, prefer­ably some made of steel instead of plas­tic. Also the  rain­fly doesn’t cover all of the porch room. This isn’t really an issue unless you plan on sleep­ing in the screened porch room or stor­ing some­thing there that could be dam­age by the rain. Prob­a­bly shouldn’t store that kind of stuff in the screened room anyway.

Sum­mary

The Cole­man Weath­er­Mas­ter 6 Per­son Tent is one of the bet­ter weather resis­tant tents out there.  If you don’t like or need the screened porch fea­ture you could just pick up a Cole­man Weath­er­Mas­ter 8 which is basi­cally the same ten except with a closed in room where the screened room is on the weath­er­mas­ter 6 per­son. The screened porch is a great fea­ture in my opin­ion though, but I can under­stand why some might not want or need it. This is a good Fam­ily Tent. Click Cole­man Weath­er­Mas­ter Screened 6 Tent to check if it is still 36% off and to see if free ship­ping is still avail­able from Amazon.

 

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