The last tarp I owned was a MacCat Deluxe in Spinn material. My hammock is a Warbonnet BB 1.7 regular size and I prefer doors for bad weather. Can someone give me a rundown of the current tarp makers out there, I'm interested in spinn tarps, cuben tarps and silnylon.
Spinn tarps are no longer made as the fabric can't be sourced. In the last year or so silicone/polyurethane coated polyester fabrics have made up for that. One is called SilPoly from Ripstop By The Roll and the other is Xenon from MakeYourGear.com (a Dutchware sister company).Originally Posted by Ike1985
As for tarp makers, all of the big hammock vendors make tarps with doors. Some offerings you may consider are the SuperFly (Warbonnet), WinterDream (UGQ Outdoor Equipment), WinterHaven (Simply Light Designs), Old Man Winter (Wilderness Logics), Winter Palace (cuben fabric from Hammock Gear). I am sure I am forgetting a few others, but search the site here and you will find what you are after.
Cheers
Brian
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. - Unknown
You should check out the newer SilPoly tarps as they do not soak up water and do not stretch. I have the Winter Haven from SimplyLightDesgns and love it. From order to door step was 3 days.
http://www.simplylightdesigns.com/ca...roducts_id/213
Good rundown Brian.
I am still hanging with my HG Standard with doors which has been fine for 3-seasons in the southeast US, but have often thought of a Winter Palace for more wind protection as I typically hang below the lower edge of the tarp. I have a large polysil tarp that is light (not cuben light, but still light) and weather tight. The poly doesn't stretch like the silnylon so staking it out is more like cuben.
"When you see something wobble, push it."
- Unknown
What's the difference between the membrane silpoly and the regular silpoly on the site? Do i need to use the stretchy tensioner thingy's on my guylines for this silpoly material?
The original reason for the tarp tensioners was to mitigate the inherent stretch in silnylon tarps and to also create some give in the guy line so if there was a large wind storm or someone tripped over your guy line, there would be a failure point in the system that would break before the tarp would. Since there is minimal stretch in the polyester based fabrics, having some shock cord loops as part of the guy line system is beneficial. Alternatively, one could use a much lower breaking strength guy line instead of zing-it/lash-it and achieve the same result.
Cheers
Brian
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. - Unknown
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