Thanks for the help so far guys
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While I've hammock camped a fair bit over the last year or so, most of it hasn't been in much rain (big droughts around here most of the year). Additionally, this is my first sil-tarp. My other tarp is a Kelty Noah 12, which is PU coated. I wasn't sure if Sil-coated fabrics worked a bit differently than PU stuff, or if I had simply leaked through.
The rain was intermittent through the day and evening. The rain that did fall usually didn't last more than 30 minutes, and and was mostly straight down. Daytime highs of ~55-60f, with lows that night of ~35f. I setup the tarp and hammock at the top of the hill, around 10am, and used it for lounging/relaxing during the day, and then decided to sleep in it overnight (I was at my families cabin, and elected to try out my setup just outside, to try my new TQ, tarp, etc, so then I could bail if anything bad happened). During the day I did not notice any water on the underside of the fabric.
I got into the hammock around midnight, after chatting inside to family during the reunion, so the temperature was already low, and the water on the underside of the tarp was already present before I even got in, and started generating my own condensation.
So its pretty common for the inside surface of the tarp to be that damp then?................
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