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Quote: Originally posted by alecspoons on 03/6/2017

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dk168: is your tarp rectangular? It looks much wider than ours at the front.

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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 03/6/2017

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The tarp in my pic is a poly-cotton one from Obelink, 3.75m x 3.75m square.

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Quote: Originally posted by alecspoons on 04/6/2017

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Mucker1884:

I'm looking again more closely at the picture you posted. It's the most similar to the way we set up. I'm guessing that you started with something like this. Have you then used two poles right at the back against the tent to support the tarp? Or is the tent supporting the tarp?

I think I'm beginning to see where we went wrong. Because we are putting a tarp on the side of a tunnel tent which curves upwards away from the doorway, and because the tarp is hexagonal, we put the tarp too far back and too close to the tent. That meant that all of its supporting guys are too close to the tent guys and therefore the wind break is also closer and its guys are muddled up with everything else!

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Quote: Originally posted by DeborahTurner on 05/6/2017

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That is a great tarp - I might have got that had I seen it before I got my Obelink one. For the loops on top and the lantern point.

Thanks also Mucker for the close ups of the fixings.

Ewan, do you put the metal ring of the krab over the top of the tent pole, with yours?

Off to search the ridge-line method post.

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