narrow underquilt?

[mountaingoat]

As far as underquilts and width.....does it make sense for a smaller( narrower) person to go with a narrower quilt? I really don't want to carry more than I need, so I am looking to shed where I can and bring the extra where I need.
Thanks

[Jsaults]

but my experience indicates that there are several determining factors.

If you are small, does your hammock wrap far up your sides? Are you a back or a side sleeper? If you are well "cocooned" by your hammock it seems that a wide UQ would serve you well, and a TQ that is "just wide enough" should suffice.

I, on teh other hand, am large and wide. I plan on ordering a Hammock Gear Burrow sized custom/wide as I am a side-sleeper, and whilc my CJH is generously wide I feel that I will need the extra width to tuck and cover.

That is my hypothesis, anyway. The folks who actually sew these items are the real experts.

Jim

[pgibson]

Several factors play in as Jsaults pointed at. What hammock makes a little bit of a difference but the big factors are, how you sleep or may sleep, your actual size, you need more coverage than you are wide and a narrower quilt is also harder to keep in place. That is the narrower you are the more easily the quilt will shift out from under you when it is also narrow. There are some cures for that but it is something to keep in mind.

[mountaingoat]

Thanks. I sleep on my back but now and then on my side. I am getting a WBBB, so I would think that wraps me around pretty good. How narrow am I? 5'2" and 108 lbs, so pretty narrow. I will have a custom top quilt, quite warm there. This hammocking is going to make my pack quite a big heavier, which is allright if I sleep a lot better, but I am a backpacker and I do count grams.

[hangnout]

IMO with the WBBB I would not go less than 40". You are laying on the asym and it is hard to get the UQ to align perfectly.

I would stay pretty close to what the vendors are producing except for maybe a bridge style hammock or an inline hammock similar to the Clark UL. I have used 36" quilts on those but always wished it was wider in the shoulders. I have a couple trapezoid shaped quilts that solve that problem

[Wags]

i'd imagine that you'd have a hard time going wrong with a warbonnet yeti, made by the man who makes your hammock

[Cannibal]

In my opinion, the effectiveness of a narrow underquilt is determined by if you are a restless sleeper. The only real complaint I've heard from people about Yetis is that they have a tendency to slip off the shoulder during the night. I don't experience that with any regularity and I'm not exactly a narrow shouldered person. When I do experience it, it's because I'm having one of those nights that I just toss and turn. When I sleep normally (on my back), I have no issues with the Yetis moving around and would assume that would hold true with any narrow underquilt.