>Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 12:55:16 -0600 >From: "Mike McNally" <mmcnally3_at_PRODIGY.NET> >Subject: [Paddlewise] tarp cloth > >Someone posted that you can purchase outdoor fabrics from some seattle >site... www.seatlefabricsalesmendriveporches.com or some such site. I found >that you can get a coated ripstop at http://www.milehightextile.com for >2.95/yd. I don't know that this is a resonable price, but I do know it's >less than half the price the seatle site had posted. > >Mike I checked out the cost of buying material and making my own tarp vs buying a ready-made tarp last summer, and based on the prices quoted (also in Seattle, btw), it was cheaper buying one ready-made. I got a huge tarp from Walrus measuring around 12' x 18' for $66. Figure that, with waste, you'd need anywhere from 24 or more yards to make one this size and that works out to around $2.75 per yard (for a nylon/polyester blend, essentially the same stuff they use on their tent flys (flies?)). Evan Woodinville, WA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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