Re: [Paddlewise] Hennessy Hammock: Functional Equivalents?

RE/
> Right now, I'm playing around with
>some nylon pack cloth - but realize that the whole Hennessy implementation is
>not quite as simple as it looks....

Well, as mentioned already, I bought the Hennessey.

Then I bought the Clark Jungle Hammock.

IMHO Clark has it pretty well nailed except for size.

Then I bought a hunk of 1,000 denier nylon cordura that is 15 feet long and five
feet wide....plus some windbreaker taffeta,  some no-see-um netting and a
beeeeeg spool of heavy nylon thread.

A little heming, a little stitching and.... voila!    Just strung it up in the
back yard, tossed in a polartec blanket and a few pillows, crawled in, and darn
near fell asleep....

It looks kind of ridiculous: 13 feet end-to-end...but the extreme length means
that the shoulders don't get squeezed like they do when you're head is near the
end of a shorter hammock.

The extreme width is functional too:  when you draw up one or both knees, the
knee is resting on the cordura instead of where the mosquito netting would be.
OTOH, when the legs are straight out, the sides kind of envelop you....I'm not
sure whether that is good, bad, or indifferent...time will tell...

Sixty feet of #7 delrin coil zipper is supposed to arrive tomorrow or the next
day and then we'll get on with it.....

I'll probably commence all-night sleep testing this weekend.

"Real-world" experience may change my mind later, but right now it's looking to
me like the hammock is highly underrated as a sleeping tool.


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Pete Cresswell
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