joelolly86, Welcome to the forum
How tall are you? If on the plus side of 6 ft, that Explorer could feel a bit small.
My experience with different sized hammocks is they are a lot like anything else - estimates and approximates. Just like a 2 x 4 can be as small as 1.5 x 3.5 and still be called a 2 x 4, and clothes from different manufacturers can be labeled the same size but are clearly not when you try them on, So a “size” can be less than precise.
For example, the Explorer is listed at 130 inches - that’s 10.8 ft. Now you see that knob on each end - that’s fabric. And that .8 ft is about 9 inches or 4.5 inches for each end. So it might be that completely unravelled, the material is 130 inches. In fact, the specs on that model says the bottom FABRIC is 130 inches, not the “hammock”. As an aside, the website listed Explorer with XL after it. So I’m guessing there isn’t a NON-XL Explorer and it’s just XL compared to the Expedition (which is only 119 inches). And it says it’s foot longer than the Expedition which is more like a 9 ft hammock. As with the Explorer, the listed 119 inches is bottom fabric length.
Some 11 ft hammocks I’ve acquired have measured out to a little over 10.5 ft - enough to round up to 11 ft. As with your Explorer, it could be that for those hammocks, the material was 11 ft. long before the gathered end knob was made.
The Explorer retails for $199. t for that amount of money you have a lot of choices and should find something that doesn’t leave you feeling cramped - many options described in these threads.
That said, there is nothing wrong with the HH per say. I, and many others started out with a Hennessy. But I’m a short dude. Most hammocks feel big to me. I have to bring my GPS in the BIAS Camper XL in order to find my way out. And when I switched from a HH Expedition to the 12 ft HH Survivor (no longer made), I thought I’d have to register it as a separate country.
So sizes are iffy. More important is, “Can you get comfortable in it?”
Because you are good with number and measurements, note that the suggested sag (distance between ends when set up) for a hammock is 83% of total length (More like 83% - 86%; but again, a suggestion, not a rule). So note that your 100 inch ridge line comes out to 8.3 ft or 83% of 10 ft.
So the only rain fly in the ointment is “This is supposed to be an 11 ft hammock …” Again, I didn’t see anything in the web page description that said the Explorer was an “11 ft hammock”.
If you consider the Explorer a 10 ft hammock - which it seem to be - all the numbers line up.
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