Sleeping double in a single hammock

[easyriver]

Thanks for the posts. My plan is to try to get my 10-year old grandson interested in hammock camping this summer. Am pretty sure he will want to be close by. Closer the better.

[miisterwright]

Misterright,
When you hang two hammocks side by side under one tarp, do you pitch an A frame with a shallow pitch?

We have two hammocks, but only one 12 x 9 Chinook tarp. I was going to blue tarp it this time for the second tarp.

Yeah, we fly the tarp pretty wide in an A-frame. Before we got our big tarp, we overlaped our two diamond tarps and survived a downpour, but it took a very careful setup and a little miracle. I don't intend to press my luck that way again.

A good sized blue tarp should easily cover you both if the rain is coming straight down. It's more than possible to overlap tarps. You just have to be conscious of where the water will be running off.

I think your Chinook tarp should cover you both just fine. My tarp is probably closer to 9' in some places. If I'm thinking of the right tarp, I think your's is actually 12x9'6". The tarp if definitely big enough to hang two.

[opie984]

Yeah, I have a double layer hammock and don't have a single worry about it when my GF and I are in it together, but in terms of comfort it ain't. We like to lounge in it together, but both of us agree that it wouldn't work for sleeping.

Now in a pinch, plan D would be to bring 'em in the hammock with you (i.e. his hammock has a catastrophic failure)

[DiscoveryDiver]

Double lounging in a single hammock is a wonderful thing...

Double sleeping in a single hammock, I liken to a scuba drysuit...

...a fantastic concept, with a less than fantastic outcome...