Hey folks, I'm still new to hammock camping, I have about 8 nights in (and LOVING it).
The other night I slept in the windiest conditions I've ever slept in. Lots of blowing sideways rain along with an overhead lightening storm. I was using my HG dyneema tarp with doors. On the tarp I used shock cord / guylines with tarp worms that I ordered from Dutchware.
The shock cord gave the tarp a lot of room to move as the wind blew directly into the side of the tarp, so much so that the tarp was constantly pushing into the hammock throughout the night. Or at least that is what I think was happening. The other side of the tarp also had a lot of room to move around as some of the wind made it's way underneath the hammock and over to that side of the tarp. When I had originally set up I tensioned (stretched) the shock cord quite a bit as I anticipated a windy night.
Did I do this wrong? Is using shock cord necessary for a dyneema tarp? With my old silpoly tents I was used to cranking down on the guyline tension quite a bit and always had good results. I guess during the night I was annoyed by all that movement from the tarp and wished that I could have been able to just crank down on a shockcord-less guyline system to keep the tarp steady. Is it okay to do that or would there be a risk of stretching the dyneema? Or should I just keep going with the shock cord and chalk it up to a 1 in a 100 kind of windy night.
FWIW, the tarp did keep me bone dry throughout the night (with doors closed) even though two of the tarp worms failed (probably my fault?).
Thank you in advance.
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