I just finished my first DIY mini marathon! I made a silnylon winter tarp, snake skins, stuff sack, bug net, and ridge line organizer. Thank you to everyone for all the awesome ideas I got from browsing the forums.
The tarp was based off of Sunkmail's skinny tarp design (found here). It's make with 1.1 oz. silnylon from Ripstopbytheroll. The corner reinforcements are an additional layer of bonded sil. The ridge line is a simple flat felled seam. Tie outs are sil rolled into 1/2" strips (ends up being 4 layers) and finished with Dutch's titanium D-rings. I'm also using Dutch's new wasp and a dutch hook for the ridge line and his door hooks for the tarp doors.
I'm thinking I would like to add panel pull outs and a pole mod to keep it more open inside when the wind is blowing hard on one side. Although I'm a little worried that might cause it to rip. I was surprised how strong of a sail it created! You can see it starting to push towards the inside in the second picture.
I also made a set of snake skins like this except I made them narrower and shorter (each one ended up 6'). The tarp, skins, ridge line, and tie outs all fit into a stuff sack a little larger than a Nalgene bottle. I think it could be packed a bit tighter, but that's the size bag I made as a guess and I'm happy with it.
My bug net was made from Fronkey's instructions, except that I made cinch able end channels so the net can be pulled over the whole hammock. I'm thinking of adding side pull outs to this as well by sandwiching the noseeum between two layers of grosgrain. Will this be sufficient to keep the netting from ripping?
Last of all, I made a noseeum ridge line organizer based on the Dream Hammock design. I got tired of dropping my kindle on the ground every time I got out of the hammock.
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