Go! Drive & Camp – September 2019

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Settle in

The standard Tonga has no brakes, which means you may rely

only on the corner steadies to keep the caravan from rolling away.

There’s one at each corner, but the steadies don’t have a jack

mechanism which would otherwise allow you to rest more weight

on them once they are lowered. Each is simply a square leg that

you drop to the ground and then tighten with a knob.

You can stabilise the caravan by lowering the front first with

the jockey wheel’s crank, until the hull leans forward a little. Now

drop the two rear steadies and tighten them. Crank the jockey

wheel out again to lift the nose slightly past where it would be

level. Drop the two front steadies to take the load off the jockey

wheel, and tighten them. There you go.

The Tonga’s interior is open plan – the mattress lies folded up

in front of you against the nose side, leaving more than enough

storage space for all your bedding, camping furniture, gear and

other luggage.

The Tonga has only one door. The rear hatch lifts up until it is

perpendicular to the hull allowing you easy access to the entire

interior volume.

Drop the foyer

A tent is stowed on the inside of the hatch

• so when you open the hatch, the folded
  tent faces downward, with two fibreglass
  rods and a nylon strap that secures the tent
  in place. To unfold the tent, you need to
  release the rods and strap.
  The hatch thus forms the roof of the
  tent section – a fibreglass rod fits into each
  corner to pitch the corners of the tent,
  not unlike like a dome tent. The section
  between the interior of the hullandthe
  tent is open, of course, but thet
  the door’s edge with a velcrost
  corner is secured with a tentpe
  there is: the Tonga’s antechamb
  The Tonga also has an
  awning that covers the entire
  caravan and is stored in a long
  box that is secured to the left
  of the roof (along the length
  of the caravan). If you want to
  use the awning, you should
  deploy it before opening the
  rear hatch, otherwise you’ll
  struggle to swing the awning
  over the antechamber tent.

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