Spindrift vs winter tarp

[Tropicalzach]

I have the 13ft Superfly w/ pole mods and the Spindrift 2door exterior pole version all in Bushwack camo and I love the set up! Was in 30* this past weekend and forgot to leave the tops of my doors open until about 2AM. Condensation can be an issue if you don't vent. I use it up to about 50* nights just as a nice privacy enclosure.

What do you mean by a 2door is xterior pole version?

[cougarmeat]

My guess is the "exterior pole version" means the bridge's spreader bars are outside the SpinDrift.

The older Spindrift was designed such that the bridge spreader bars were inside the spindrift sock. In order to add or remove the sock, you had to unfasten the dogbones from a hardware connection where they met, then slip the dogbone suspension through small metal grommets at the corners of the spindrift.

The NEW (though years old now) Spindrift is different. It's been almost a year since I've used mine so I don't recall exactly how it is "worn" by the bridge, but do recall the spreader bars are now outside the Spindrift.

The newer RidgeRunner did away with the metal hardware that held the spreader bar pins, and also the hardware at the apex of the dogbones. Using my imagination (rather than memory), start with the bridge laid out with no spread bars and nothing connecting the dogbones together at the "tree" end. - so a rectangle with a line at each corner. Now put the bridge inside the spindrift, running the dogbone lines through a small opening at each corner of the spindrift. Finally, attach the spreader bars, outside the spindrift, into the Amsteel loops placed in the dogbones for that purpose. Wa-La, "exterior pole version". Instead of metal hardware at the end of the dogbones, that issue is an exercise left to the student. For example, a carabiner to daisy chain loop.

[Canadark]

What do you mean by a 2door is xterior pole version?

And the original design of the Spindrift had only one door...

[cougarmeat]

Canadark - yes, I forgot. I always paid a little more to have a second zipper door added to the other side. The "newer" - been around for a few years now maybe - comes standard with a door on each side and split rings inside to attach the built-in RidgeRunner bug net.