Evening all,

Like many Ive taken advantage of lockdown to get on with the eternal list of jobs....including reminding myself how our 530 functions as we've only had one short trip away when we bought our Troll 530 (2017 model) last Autumn. We also purchased an Isabella Capri North awning at the same time. The awning was an impulse purchase and I subsequently realised it may have been a mistake as our troll was already equipped with an Omnimastor 6200 canopy, that can provide a choice of adequate add on awnings. Oh well....Anyhow, yesterday we decided to erect the Capri North awning. Those of you that have this awning will agree the accompanying instructions are extremely limited and there is nothing on you tube specific for the Capri North, which Isabella claim is suitable for the Familia, Triton and Troll. Fast forward 3 hours and we cracked it without falling out (amazing).

I like the design, material quality and feel that with practice we should be able to reduce the erection time to around an hour. Its annoying that Isabella do not provide the little tensioning tool "hercules' which we shall have to purchase. other than that I'm now happy with the purchase. I would consider getting the omnimaster rain blockers for short trips during the winter/autumn.

If anyone has this awning and is struggling I can forward photos to assist.

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Trying to add a photo to my post is far harder than putting the awning up tho. Ive tried the 'Fotos Hochladen' & 'Attach File' links to no avail....
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It worked!

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Thanks Colin, thats encouraging to know.

I agree with Colin,If you colour code the poles [bands of different coloured tape] it makes it far easier to know where each piece goes and speeds up the process. We can do ours in 40 min.
Dave

Standing where the front of the awning will be, looking at the van, my poles are coloured port and starboard, ie red left, green right.

I need more colours. port, starboard ,fore, aft, aloft, midships and not forgetting overboard.

We're going away for a week on 5th july with our 430 touring, and I'm determined to put up the capri North for the duration. We tried twice last summer on two weekends away and succeeded first time with help from other experienced campers but second time gave up as too windy. I would be grateful for any guide or photos anyone has.Thanks.
Steve

Good luck Steve as it is a lovely looking awning when it is up.

Any advice from myself would be useless as I am the guy who tried to put up a small AL Porch Awning with the frame back to front and it ended up being thrown unbagged into the back of the estate.

That night in the club house a chap who had been sat outside his van drinking beer straight from a can watching me struggle, came up and said to me that he thought i was putting the frame up wrong.... luckily I had had nothing to drink and thanked him pleasantly for his input.

The Capri is worth the effort to put up so persist and try to reach Colin's 40 minutes.

MikeT

If look on YouTube Capri coal basically the same ,apart from cross part next to caravan .isabella have stopped making Capri north for eriba ,making Capri coal again ...

We are looking to sell our 6200 Smart Panels as our grandchildren can’t sleep in it. We only bought them in June 2020 and have used them over the last three weeks. We bought them from Rose Awnings for £633 (inc carriage) but will sell for £550 If you are interested.

Hi, we have just picked up our new Eriba familia 320 GT. I'm trying to figure out where the clip pads that hold the poles to the caravan fit. It has one a fixing screwed in for the centre. I can't see how the outer fixings can clamp to the rail, and I don't want to damage it by forcing anything,.it's an Isabella Capri north G10 awning
Any advice welcome.
Thanks Dave