Thanks for all the replies! I’m sure that if a bunch of people were experiencing failures of the sil-poly material we would have heard about it here.

I ordered and recieved my superfly in camo sil-poly. Pull-outs are sealed and I’m ready to go.

I had the center pole mod done as well. I had an extra tent pole around from an old sierra designs tent that had a bent section. It was longer than the 112.5” that the superfly needs so I took out the bent section and cut it down to the right length. I set it up in the yard and the pole mod looks pretty nice. I probably won’t carry the pole all the time, but it looks like it would be handy in the winter for a snowy trip.

I’m hoping to get out for a little trip in the next couple weeks to break it in!