WaterPROOF tent for camping on ocean beach?

There is no tent that is completely "waterproof". Coleman is a leader in family camping tent gear and their products are treated and seams factory sealed for weather protection so they have a "weather protection guarantee" but that is vague at best. Any tent for it to have good resistance to the weather must be set up correctly and all seams sealed and the material rated or coated with water resistance material. I find that higher end tents have better designs for weather protection and dome style tents the best overall design. Again Coleman meets that need. Here is an article to help you choose a quality tent,

http://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/family-base...

Now you stated you are interested in beach camping. First if you don't have reservations now forget it all beach camping in the state of california is by reservation only 6 months in advance. Next beaches are naturally humid and tents are always damp inside and out in any weather situation specially at night . To help with that you need a tent with very good ventilation. Again Coleman tents meet that need.

@Eureka is no different than Coleman except for tent designs they use the same comparable materials and methods of construction or weather proofing, it's comparing apples to oranges

Virtually any tent is made with waterproofed material for the floor, at least the lower sidewalls and the fly. That is not the problem. The difference between a cheap tent that you will get soaked in and a high quality tent that will keep you dry is in the design and construction. Good tents have EVERY seam coated with seam sealer, If you don't do this water will leak through the stitching. This is a costly process that must be done by hand. If you bought a cheap tent, you will have to set it up in your yard, buy several tubes of seam sealer and do all this yourself. Second, the catenary cut of the tent and fly in better tents makes them pitch more tightly and in a better weather-shedding manner. The fly should always be tight and should be carefully designed so wind and rain can't sneak under and get to the windows, It should also be designed so you can ventilate it. Most of the moisture that people think is rain getting into their tents in stormy weather is not rain at all, it is water vapor from the humidity in the air and from the campers breath and skin perspiration that condenses on the cool interior walls of the tent. If your tent is not designed with a lot of vented mesh windows you can keep open without allowing rain in then you will get a LOT of condensation. Tent poles and guy lines are important too. They should be strong enough and well designed so you can pitch the tent very tightly and wind and heavy rainfall will not cause the fly to sag and touch the interior walls.

I have never gotten wet camping in my own high quality tents during 40 plus years of camping. Currently I use a Marmot 3 season 2-person backpacking tent where the entire roof and upper walls of the tent are all mosquito netting. It has a very well designed fly that comes almost to the ground on all sides and all the seams are sealed. It has an extended vestibule so you can slip in and out without letting rain blow in where your sleeping bags are. We camped last year in the Everglades with that tent and the first night there was a monsoon-like rain storm, almost like you were standing under a waterfall for several hours. We heard people in the campground screaming and running for the shelter of the shower house and rest rooms when their tents either collapsed or started to leak so badly they could not sleep. Even some of the people in trailers got saoked when it blew in around their doors and windows. But we were snug and dry as a bone in my little Marmot -- didn't even have any condensation on the floors.. I have had similar experiences in my larger car camping tent, an REI Hobitat 4. It's another tent that pitches tautly, has excellent fly coverage, lots of square inches of mesh to ventilate and fully seam sealed construction.

It comes down to: what is comfort on your vacation worth? As others have mentioned, buying a good tent is cheaper than what you would pay for 3 or 4 nights in a resort motel. And you can always sell the tent if you don't use it again. Definitely a worthwhile investment.

I don't like tent camping at all, it can become dangerous. Went camping at Grapevine, TX. We really didn't know much about tent , got real close to the water a storm came up , had the tent zipped with floor in all windows , that thing blew up like a balloon. We trying to hold the top from caving in, we started rocking. Finally got enough sense to unzip the front because we were just before flying into the lake like a balloon. Everything in the tent got soaked, we were wet and just sick and tired , we went home. Came back the next day , it was the biggest mess, we loaded everything in the back of a pickup., give the tent away and never went tent camping again. End of story, never go tent camping with a bunch of girls unless you know what you are doing. We were all crying because because we could all been killed , drowned. Whew.

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WaterPROOF tent for camping on ocean beach?

Does coleman or any more respected tent makers offer an already waterproofed tent to withstand multi-hour downpours?

I'm sure that Coleman is like the Huffy/Murray of camping gear, so any camping pros out there please let me know whom for to be looking.

I always advocate spending as much money on a tent as you will spend on a motel when a cheap car-camping tent fails. Buy a mid-range backpacking tent, which means spending $300 to $500 on a tent constructed out of high-quality materials, assembled and factory sealed seams and joints.

Big Agnes, The North Face, REI, Marmot, GoLite, MSR are a few good brands. Test any tent before camping in adverse weather conditions.

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