The first time I had to pack my wet tarp back in the non-mesh sleeve, I understood the problem. It’s not the tarp; that will still have to be hung out to dry. It’s the inside of the nylon sleeve. The mesh skin will dry much more easily/quicker. I don’t use the sleeve to protect the tarp. I use the sleeve so in high-ish winds I can expose a little fo the tarp at a time while guying it out. And I can hang the just the ridgeline if I feel okay about not deploying it immediately. Note that more things fall from the sky besides rain. And that moon and get pretty bright. I tell people that, for me, it gets pretty dark when I close my eyes. But I’ve been out on a full moon night when it was overhead and seemed just like spotlight.
So for me, the skin is to aid in deploying in the wind. And when pulled over a wet tarp, the inside of the skin will get wet and you don’t want to store that away wet; mesh drys quicker.
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