Attaching a removable beak

A zipper for the rear and for the front something like the echo ?

I saw this two week old thread. If you haven't already used Velcro or snaps, read on.

I have a ray way tarp with a net tent which attaches by "s" hooks to loops on the tarp. I disliked them because any wiggling of the tarp would shake the hooks off. I replaced them with hardwood dowels just longer than the loops. I ran upholstery thread through a hole drilled in the middle of the dowels. The dowels stay in the loops dependably and weigh less than the "s" hooks. This will be lighter than snaps and probably Velcro too.

If you were thinking of snaps, you could also consider magnets. If you search magnets on amazon you can find 100 neodymium magnets for something like $7. they are extremely strong and light.

I've been thinking about doing something like this with line-locks at the 3 corners of a triangle with toggles fixed at the end of the cord.

Just slip the toggles through the tie-outs at the corners of your tarp and at the peak.

You could easily attach a line-lock to the middle of an edge on the triangle if you didn't want a flat beak.

Anthony