NZ HUNTER MAGAZINE Testfire
Given there’s been a few thousand years of development, it’s a pretty difficult recipe to improve on. The concept is simple – a sheet of fabric to stretch over yourself and shelter from the elements. So where to from there? There’s the basics, like tie-out points – fairly easy to get right. There’s the extras, like the guy ropes – again, not that hard. But you can’t talk about tarps without addressing the fabric
With tents so light these days the simple tarp has to work even harder to maintain it’s weight advantage. Tarps are mostly commonly made from nylon, or silicone coated nylon (SilNylon) to be more accurate, but fortunately the fabrics industry is always developing something new, and this time a product from Challenge Sailcloth
