shelter in Tramplite style

[Ivo Vanmontfort]

Looking for a new project?
check out the tramplite by Colin Ibottson.
The design evolved progressively.
After one of his latest ideas

New full coverage rain door for the beaked shelter. Also testing a new cut on the tarp for an even tauter pitch. pic.twitter.com/5AOHXx3oHW

— Colin Ibbotson (@Tramplite) March 5, 2016

I tried to make a copy in silnylon.
https://goo.gl/photos/tckGzwLfDUjKxdNT7
one of the finest designs that I know,
certainly the way the ‘door’ has been created.
(sorry cannot make a good link without delete the post)

[Hoosier T]

This is funny timing. I just made a copy out of membrane Silpoly and I’m about to make it in cuben. Awesome design

[Matthew / BPL]

Reminds me of an MLD Cricket. I like how the door works. Very interesting.

[Hoosier T]

I love it because it resembles the pointed back wall with the flat angle of the Deschute tarp, but the beak of the hexamid. The side panels are actually a right-triangle, unlike the Cricket, which makes the rear much more wind resistant. I will be using mine with no door at all, just the beak. It will be single wall and the entrance has a fairly high piece of WPB robic 7D from RSBTR and the huge zipper of a duplex. This will be the door going into my cuben version along with a Silpoly PU4000 floor that will hang like a Duplex.

[No Name]

Ivo how did you like your silnylon version?

Does the stretch of the fabric reduce headroom from colin’s version, and do you have an idea how it will hold up in windy conditions? If it holds well, the 600 gram (21 oz) silnylon version is similar to the trailstar, but with a smaller footprint.

[Ivo Vanmontfort]

Used the 55gr/m2 silnylon from extremtextil
https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/105800/
The stretch on the two rear panels reduces the height a little
This is because the cut of the two silnylon parts for the back
Let the catenarycut small (mine is 2.5 cm)
Or avoids it
It also reduces the height
(Look the curve of the seams in the pictures.)
I thought to incorporate small polyester ribbon into the tree seams of the back to stiffen the fly.
but did not.
colin suggests

Extreme weather kit option for Tramplite shelters. Removable rear panel brace and double pegging guylines. pic.twitter.com/Eqs1Rpr0AV

— Colin Ibbotson (@Tramplite) October 3, 2015

The base of my shelter is 3m long (i am 192 cm)
Therefore everything is ok.
You can lower the front (pole at an angle).
that increases the back panels
The tent used only 3 days
In September I go to the Pyrenees.
I will share my experiences.

[Hoosier T]

Yea I had an impossible time getting the rear of mine completely taught with Silpoly as well. Wasn’t totally please with the head room. With the cuben version I’m about to make, I plan to add a panel pull out on each of the two rear panels. I carry two trekking poles so I’ll have both lines coming up to a trekking pole cup then staked out. This way I’ll actually be pulling the panels back AND up, unlike the pulls of a mid or duplex where you run them straight down to the ground. I’m thinking this will also help keep the read panels up and taught when wind is hitting them. The first time I pitched mine it was nice and breezy so I pitched the back into the wind as it should be. You can see when looking in the front how much the rear panels stretched and buckled in with wind hitting them. I feel like unless you’re using cuben mid-panel pull outs are needed for the rear but I will still put them on for the cuben version.

[Hoosier T]

BTW Ivo, can I ask how long your side panels are at the front seam (where the beak attaches to the side panel)? Yours looks to have a much wider base. I was shooting for 100″ wide so I made each panel ~68″ and planned for a 46″ pole height.

[Ivo Vanmontfort]

1 side panel is 194 cm long, the pole height about 125 cm
So the base is about 300cm wide

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