[Rhodes22-list] Boom Room Update

[Slim]

Sounds good to me too.  I like the idea of rip-stop nylon tent material and
the shock cord poles.  If I'm not mistaken, those poles can be custom
ordered at any length and come in a variety of thicknesses.  We were
sleeping in a family-size dome tent (Coleman) in northern Minnesota and
survived a tornado.  Well...it wasn't a direct hit but close.  If any of you
remember the storm that flattened hundreds of acres of trees in the BWCA in
1997, that was us!  The tent was sort of "breathing" in and out as if it
were a giant lung.  I couldn't believe the stress it took without any
trouble.  And the poles on that tent are only about the thickness of a
pencil.  It was also raining pitchforks and we stayed dry as a bone.  I'd
NEVER be using my boom room under those conditions but the Colman still held
up.   Needless to say I was very impressed and I meant to send a letter to
the Coleman company but I never did.

Slim

On 2/3/06 4:52 PM, "DCLewis1 at aol.com" <DCLewis1 at aol.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I¹d like to endorse Wally¹s post.   I¹ve been following  the Boom Room
> thread with interest.  No immediate plans for a BR, but  may get one in 2
> years. 
> 
> I¹ve done a fair amount of tent camping.  The tents we use today go up  with
> aluminum tubes and shock cord - they've come a long way since I was a  kid.
> They go up very quickly and they¹re robust.  The tents are made  with thin
> light weight tent cloth and they commonly have a fly over the top  (it¹s part
> of 
> the tent).  The purpose of the fly is to reflect radiation  and let air
> circulate beneath to cool the tent.  Also, the  fly is water-proofed, as is
> the 
> entire tent, but the fly takes the brunt of any  rainfall and directs most of
> the 
> water away from the tent.  Finally,  the fly catches the brunt of the UV.
> Collapsed, the tents fit in a backpack  (supports and all).  You¹ll see
> mountain 
> climbers using them in very  stressing (i.e. high wind) environments.
> 
> If the material and supports these tents are made with are strong enough  for
> high winds on a mountain, why aren¹t they good enough for the water?   I'm
> not suggesting those explicit tent designs and structures, but use the tent
> cloth and aluminum/shock-cord technology.
> 
> The tent cloth is easily worked by hand or with a standard sewing  machine. I
> think that it will likely be cheaper to fabricate a BR with tent  cloth than
> sail cloth or Sunbrella, and the resulting BR will be more compact to  store.
> The aluminum/shock-cord technology will be much more compact  than PVC.
> 
> Dave
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