Grommet attachment is certainly the weak spot of Tyvek. First we had a set of grommets in the tarp, and during training hikes they worked great. However, at Philmont the combination of wind and rain was too much, and they slowly failed. By the fourth day we had replaced every one with a pebble, strangled by a short piece of parachute cord. We rigged the other end of the cord with a bowline and used that as a surrogate grommet, for the peak toggles and other needs. It wasn't pretty, but worked very well. - robi garcia
Cliff Hall <drcliffhall@yahoo.com> wrote:What did you do for grommets? I tried making a tyvek fly and couldn't get grommets into it. Invariably any attempts cut the tyvek. As I recall, the Philtechnique for putting up a fly involves threading line through the center grommets, doesn't it?-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On Behalf Of Robi Garcia
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2003 1:31 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: Philmont Dining Fly options
We brought a lightweight Tyvek fly last year, worked very well (though a little noisy in the wind). Cost about $40.00 including lightweight stakes & 20 lb. nylon line; we rigged it the way our Ranger taught us, & had no problems all trek with some pretty significant rain.
- robig
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