2006 seapine on its way to our home soon!

[cbird]

Well after lurking around here for months,and asking questions along the way,we finally negotiated a deal we could live with on a new 2006 seapine at an open house last weekend. 7K equipped with hot water/outside shower, AC with strip heater, furnace, battery,and canopy. Could have done better if I would have given up the hot water. Couldn't let it go cause I really want to be able to hose down the kids when we are dry camping. Checked four area dealers to find one equipped with hot water/outside shower on the lot to no avail. Ours will be coming straight from the factory which left us little wiggle room for haggling. I am also still so surprised at the difference in negotiation room between this and cars I have purchased in the past.


Anyway I want to thank all of you for your threads. I learned alot and even the salesperson was pretty impressed. I had the fun experience of explaing to him in front of the Fleetwood dealer what the two faucets are for if you don't have hot water installed. I learned it all here and I also think it helped with the negotiating.

We bring it home next week and tackle the challenge of getting it in the garage with about three inches to spare on each side. Will be doing it by hand, or leaving it chocked on the driveway, until our new powermover electric dolly arrives. (The kids can get scholarships to college, right?).

[diane]

Congrats on the new camper. I have an 02 Cottonwood which has the same floorplan in the destiny series. It offers lots of sleeping space (for every kid in the neighborhood that seems to come camping with us :yikes: ). When I'm ONLY bringing 5 kids I leave the table home and it seems to be a lot more spacious and this also allows a lot of space for gear when it's packed up. Once you bring it home, you will find yourself seeing  LOTS of accessories that you will want. My 3 must haves are the BAL leveler, a thermoelectric cooler to keeps the kids and drinks outside, and $2.99 tiki stakes from homedepo (just hammer them into the ground and place the awning legs into them and forget those darn ropes).  Hope you have a good camping season and again contrats.

[cbird]

Congrats on the new camper. I have an 02 Cottonwood which has the same floorplan in the destiny series. It offers lots of sleeping space (for every kid in the neighborhood that seems to come camping with us :yikes: ). When I'm ONLY bringing 5 kids I leave the table home and it seems to be a lot more spacious and this also allows a lot of space for gear when it's packed up. Once you bring it home, you will find yourself seeing  LOTS of accessories that you will want. My 3 must haves are the BAL leveler, a thermoelectric cooler to keeps the kids and drinks outside, and $2.99 tiki stakes from homedepo (just hammer them into the ground and place the awning legs into them and forget those darn ropes).  Hope you have a good camping season and again contrats.

Thanks, the sleeping/lounging space is why we were attracted to this floorplan as well. We have a gaggle of kids on the block who trail behind each other too. We don't even have the thing home and my two are informing us who they want to take camping first...

The BAL leveler is on my list. These tiki stakes are intriguing, will have to check them out. Honestly don't know how often we will use the awning because we have a huge screen tent that has room for the picnic table plus and seems to be indestructable in storms. Have been tent camping with it for ten years now. I have to admit the threads about awnings have me kind of unerved about using one. Seems you always have to worry about the wind kicking up and it would drive me nuts to keep taking the thing up and down. Our biggest trips always seem to be late August when thunderstorms are gaurenteed. Never have had a problem with the screen tent... Am I worrying too much?

[diane]

There are times I don't bother putting up the awning (2 night trips). It does help keep the sun and heat out of the camper on that side. For long trips I use the awning and a screen room (extra conversation area when mosquitoes are abundant) but usually just the awning. Using the tiki stakes has made such a difference, I hated using the ropes to secure the awning.

[tlhdoc]

Congrats on the new camper.  If you secure the awning to the ground, picnic table, etc where it can't get loose in a storm you should be fine.  Keep one side lower than the other so that any rain would run off and not build up on the awning.

[BF558]

We Just Got A '98 Seapine,  Took Our First Trip Last Weekend To Columbus, Oh.  Other Than Renting A Pu A Month Ago This Was Our First Trip.  Loved It!!  Just Joined This Group Today And Looking Forward To All The Advice.

[4campinfoxes]

Congratulations on your new purchase.  We always use our awning, it helps provide shade and is a place to store things under a canopy in the event of rain.

Enjoy!

Sharon

[wavery]

Congratulations on your new purchase.  We always use our awning, it helps provide shade and is a place to store things under a canopy in the event of rain.

Enjoy!

Sharon

Rain :confused:   What's that? :p

Oh ya........that ugly stuff that is ravaging the wrong side of the country.......Why go camping in that stuff?

I wish you guys would send some of that stuff our way.................in pipes.....like civilized places do...........not falling out of the sky...what's that all about. :confused:

[PLJ]

We use the awning. As I prefer to do the cooking outside then the awning provides nice shade from the sun and/or rain.

We had some pretty strong storms go through the group camp we stayed at last weekend and the awning was fine. Likewise the screen room. The storm was strong enough to bring down plenty of small tree limbs and the odd larger one.