RV FEATURE
Our camp table and bench seat was transported under the bed.
“
WHAT TRULY SURPRISED ME
WAS THE WEIGHT OF THE 10A
AND 15A POWER LEADS.
”
My son, Ethan, and I had a bet. As my family
and I prepared to spend our Christmas break
in a new Coromal Appeal caravan, I guessed
that we’d load the caravan with only 220kg
of stuff, including the water and gas in the
van’s tanks. added bonus of teaching him the true cost of
gambling after I won the bet.
I admit that I was a little smug. I’d weighed
individual items, from food to sleeping bags,
before and I was feeling so confident that I
took my 12-year-old’s bet. I was aware that the camp chairs were a
‘weight buster’, with one adult-size camp
chair weighing 4.5kg each. Multiply that by
three, throw in a couple of kids’ camp chairs,
and that’s 17.5kg added to the front boot of
the van.
He’d mow the lawn for free – forgoing the $5
I’d usually pay him – for three months if the
total was closer to my guess of 220kg. If it was
closer to his guess of 300kg, I’d pay him $20.
My wife thought this was a bad idea. Aside
from teaching our child about gambling, she
was with him. In her eyes, there was no way
the total would be as low as 220kg. I,
however, saw it as harmless fun, with the
So out came the bathroom scales. The bet
was on…
CAMPING GEAR
What truly surprised me as I weighed the
camping gear, however, was the weight of
the 10A and 15A power leads (we were
going to be camped on a bush block plugged
into a 10A outlet, so I also packed an
Ampfibian RV Plus adaptor). These two leads
weighed 5.2kg.
Regardless, I remained confident.
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