Originally Posted by
VictoriaGuy
Your calculation is correct, if your hammock body contains 16 sq yd of fabric.
Put another way, if your 16 sq yd hammock weighs 7.7 oz, then the fabric weight would be 7.7oz/16 sq yd or 0.48 oz/sq yd.
Is your hammock really 16 sq yd?
1 sq yd is a piece 3 ft x 3 ft or 9 sq ft
16 sq yd is 144 sq ft
So if your hammock body is 12 ft long, that would be 12 ft wide (single layer) or 6 ft wide (double layer).
A typical (?) 11 x 5 ft hammock body would have 55 sq ft or about 6 sq yd. of fabric, which would be more in the 7 oz 'ballpark' for light nylon.
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