Application — Overland

Overland Tents

Overlanding is a payload discipline: every kilogram on the roof is a kilogram not carried as fuel, water or food, and every failure happens far from a dealer. Judged by that discipline, this catalogue's overland case rests on three listed facts. Weight: published inflatable weights run 8.4–28.55 kg against 69 kg for the documented hard shell, which on a long trip is the difference between carrying a second spare tyre's worth of supplies or not. Repairability: the Starry Sky 2 is modular — mattress, body and beams individually replaceable — and a repair kit is in the published packing list of the Skiff, Castle and Osprey (confirm the kit on the model you order). And simplicity: one inflation sequence, no pole sets to lose a section of in the dark.

The overland shortlist

Solo drivers take the Solo and spend the saved 60 kg on range. Two-person crews take the Skiff — the fully documented model, with published dimensions for every state from expanded to packaged. Traditionalists take the 4x4 off-road soft shell listing (65 sold) and accept the manual fold. All three pair with a 270° awning for a working camp, and the Jeep page covers the vehicle side of the same builds.

Spares thinking

Order the trip, not just the tent: a spare pump or the discipline of the hand pump the Skiff and Solo list in their packages as backup, the repair kit checked before departure, and straps inspected like tyres. Distributors supplying overland outfitters should ask about module pricing on the modular models, so a damaged mattress is a line item, not a lost customer. Confirm your basket — tent, spares, awning — as one enquiry so it ships as one system.

Build an Overland Basket