When I took a close look around a couple of older Tritons at AL last month, I'm sure I remember that the roofs were up and the ventilation flaps opened. I'm also sure that each triangular aperture was covered by its own fly mesh. But memory is not one of my best faculties these days.

Morrison, our just-delivered Triton 430 dating from 2002, doesn't have these vents screened. Instead, there is a net curtain that hangs down all round the canvas and extends an open invitation to flies to dive under the wire and bite us.

Am I dreaming about the vent meshes? If not, are they available or makeable?

Martyn

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Am I dreaming about the vent meshes? If not, are they available or makeable?

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You're probably correct there, Aaron. Haven't set eyes on the dear-ole van for a couple of months now so memory may be playing up a bit.

On our 2007 Triton we have mesh covering the triangles but it is attached by narrow velcro so easy to remove launder and replace, if the newest mesh is sewn onto the pop-top is it yet another example of the bean counting mentality which appears to be taking over in Germany? We met up with a couple who had purchased a new 418 and invited us to go for a drink in their new van. We went and duly admired their new pride and joy which to be fair was lovely we returned the compliment and when they sat in our van all we heard was 'Oh, we haven't got one of those, or that's nicer than the one we have' it was really quite sad - I think they've sold it now

My 2012 German made Familia has the small triangle fly mesh and they can be removed...........

You know something, Marmite, I'm going to ask my quack can he prescribe other tablets to the ones that I'm currently on as they appear to be slowly encouraging memory loss. You are absolutely right of course - our triangles are also affixed by velcro so please forget all that nonsense I previously posted.

get some for me too then - I used to drink to forget now I forget to drink

We've found this thread interesting.

Having been used to the net curtains in the pop tops of our previous Eriba's, we've found the mesh triangles much neater and, as others have pointed out, much less hassle when lowering or raising the roof.

We had resigned ourselves to the fact that the triangles were sewn in place, but have now checked and are delighted to find the velcro fixings.

Thanks

Keith

Thanks for your kiind comments. It's a new project and will expand over the next couple of weeks. We have lots of stuff from this year's trips to put on.

The main reason for setting it up is to keep the family and friends informed while we are away, which has been for more than 120 days this year. Phoning to and from foreign parts is expensive. We plan to have a "Current Trip" section with words and pics from each day, which will then move to the archive once we get home.

Will give us something to do in the long evenings in the van!!

Keith

Like the blog!

About the mesh fly screen triangles: we found on our previous Triton (2008) that the mesh degraded and became somewhat brittle. I assumed it was UV damage.

TonyP