Pitching in high winds

[PaulRT]

Hi All
Just to share what may appear to be obvious, but I have not seen this in any of the various 'advice' columns.
I have found that, when pitched up in high winds it makes an incredible difference if the caravan is accurately either head or tail to the wind. We were on a CL in North Norfolk last week. When we arrived the wind was SW and forecast to get pretty strong. We set up nicely protected by a quite high hedge and tail to wind. When the wind got up (gusts up to 55mph) it was noisy, but the van was rock steady. On Monday the wind went round to the W and gusted up again. Due to the change in wind direction, we had also lost the protection from the hedge and the wind was impacting diagonally on the rear of the van, which was rocking in the gusts very noticeably. We disconnected services and turned the van accurately tail to wind. The van was again quite steady.
Just a thought.
Cheers
Paul

 

[Damian]

It is well known that presenting a narrower cross section to the wind will aid stability, rather than having a large slab side taking the brunt of the wind.
However, it is not always possible to relocate the van on the pitch, in which case, parking the car on the windward side will help a bit.