First I'd like to say this is not, a bash on dutch. I have tons of his gear, and will continue to buy from him. He is a very reasonable person and I hope he gets some of this feedback without being too angry with the post. I just feel, I need to put this on the forums because I was trying to get this answered before i bought the hammock but no one but a select few had the tarp and spigyver had an opinion that the hammock was fine with a cubin fiber tarp.
So with that said, I have to disagree with spigyver on his review. I have a cubin fiber 11 ft with doors (NOT winter palace) from hammockgear.com. I just got my hammock yesterday and today I ran out to set it all up and test it out. After puting it together I put the tarp up and deployed it. I had the tarp setup super high and wide for the first try and it was fine. The question was, would it work in a storm configuration. I put the tarp in an A frame and dropped it down to where it would be reasonably low enough to keep rain coming in at a 30 degree angle from getting in at me. I VERY CAREFULLY AND SLOW tried to get into the hammock and when it touched the side of the tarp and seemed okish, I finished putting all my weight into the hammock. It pretty much instantly poke a small hole in my cubin fiber tarp. I cried a little inside, but since my son was with me, i had to man up and patch it like a grown adult.
Now if you watch the second video where spigyver shows the tarp deployed and fine, it is deployed in such a way that the wind is going right through your area. This will be fine in nice weather, and maybe even fine with the WINTER PALACE tarp, but the regular one is just not wide enough to work.
Now, hope is not lost, I am positive that some sort of rounded plastic ends can be fabricated to put over the ends once its setup. I dont want to post my review on youtube or anything until i come up with some solution because I like the hammock and want to see it do well. I am also contemplating buying the 2 person tarp he sells to see if that works better on the hammock. After all, I need to get it anyways since my wife and I both hang with the double dutch setup. Which is awesome by the way.
thoughts?
be nice and dont kill me over this post pls.
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