Last night I used my HG Palace for the first time since buying it from a member here last year. I've had it up previously, but never spend the night under it as far as I can remember. Hung in my backyard hammock lab last light and awoke around 2am to the sound of rain drops. I love sleeping under the tarp when it's raining so I just rolled over and nodded off.
The rain got really heavy so I got up to close the doors... which of course, didn't close fully because I had my normal wide pitch. That's for another post.
The good news is with the rain as hard as it was, I had no water issues from head, foot or sides.
The bad news is... There is a REALLY bad leak from the ridge seam. Dripping pretty bad. I had the choice of bailing to the house, but that would have been the wimpy thing to do. So I stayed. Fortunately I use a synthetic top quilt and even more fortunate that it was 73F, so I just let the water drip on my chest and went back to sleep.
I'm not sure of the best course of action. I can tape the seam the entire seam... I can tape the section where I think it is leaking from (hard to be sure given how water travels).. I can send it back to HG and let them resolve it.
Such are the risks of buying used.
Any suggestions??
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