Just took my JRB 10x11 out to test against some pretty stiff wind that came with the storm that rolled through today. Gusts to around 30mph. Well, as I am taking it down tonight I see that the seams on the edge of the tarp near the ridgeline are pulling away. I can see some pretty big holes in the material. They were worse than the photo when I had the tarp pitched outside.
I'm just not feeling much security in the whole tarp thing. I can't leave the ridgeline loose or the tieouts will pull the thing right down to the ground. In order to keep the thing from turning into a sail I have to really crank down on the tie outs and when I do that then it appears the material wants to give from the stress. So can I expect this tarp to fail eventually now? What am I doing wrong here?
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