tents

Starting to think seriously about tents - making, designing without waiting until two weeks before festival.

I'm searching for soldiers tents - so the kids don't have to share with us.

Here are some things I found.

http://home.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/ma/tents/pictures/de.machinis.html

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~nh0g/tent.html

http://www.past-tents.demon.co.uk/frame.htm

I also did a CAD drawing of our bed, put the tent centre pole about 50cm away from the bed and drew a circle to include the bed, with a bit of leeway either side. It would be 5m in diameter. When the pole is about 10cm from the edge of the bed, the tent is 4m diameter. For tents 3.3m, 3.6m and 3.9m, the resultant rope diameter is 8.8m, 8m and 7.4m. That's based on a tent with a shoulder height of 1.8m => is that too high?

( Here is a link to the drawing I did. )