I’ve looked at various solutions for this. The interior shock cord inside Amsteel or the “limit” cord inside surgical tubing has appeal because of it’s cleanness. For simplicity, I usually just tie my bungee to the guyline but it doesn’t look clean and the knots are kind of fussy.
IF I use a woven guyline - like 2.2mm Amsteel - I could just feed the single strand (not doubled) bungee through the weave and tie and overhand knot stopper. Do that at both ends of the bungee with the Amstel slack between to limit the stretch. It seems any pull at all on that Amstel will constrict it down so the bungee will not pull out and I can’t imagine it working it’s way out while the guyline is stored away - if I choose to keep them separate from the tarp.
I’m leaning towards having my guylines separate from the tarps because I have more than one tarp and with them off, the tarp is a little easier to store/deploy and the bag-o-lines, would live right next to the bag-o-tarp stakes. Of course that also means one more thing to possibly forget.
I’m trying to balance lineloc 3’s that hook onto the tarp guy-outs (or hook to a loop hitched to the guy-outs if they are triangular), along with bungee with stretch limiter guylines in a manner that is simple and clean. Having to stash three very wet tarps in the jeep last week, with guy-lines all a-tangle, helped imagine how simpler it would be if I just unhooked the guyline from the tarps and slid on its snakeskin.
With the lineloc 3 hook, I can see having a tied loop at the stake end to attach there, then the line going through the Lineloc, hooking the lineloc on the tarp, and pulling the guyline for the right tension.
In that case, it seems I’d need any bungee at the stake end as the guyline length adjustment would happen at the tarp/lineloc end.
But most guyline is solid rather than woven. I’m looking for the cleanest way and best Knots to do this.
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