I have been out twice with my rain fly from an older Coleman 6 person dome tent. The first time was hot and sunny and I pitched the tarp high and relatively flat. This worked well and I thought I had myself a tarp from my old tent with no new expenditure of $$$$$. The second time it rained........and rained quite hard. I found the extra material the rain fly has, from the dome shape, acted as a basin and collected water until it touched me in the hammock and then flooded off everywhere. I fiddled with it a bit and finally put in a tent pole I had, which did not solve the problem entirely. The rain fly will not pull taut as there's just extra material between the corners.
Is there anything I can do for a modification or have you all had experience with this and it is a losing battle? I should sit down and order a nice Mamajamba tarp?
Any thoughts on this are greatly appreciated. I set up a walmart blue tarp in the backyard when I got home and it definitely has it's negatives as well.
Thanks
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