I managed to complete the fly of my tent and figured I would share the outcome. After putting it up, I realized there was a lot of room for improvement so I will not be connecting the floor/mesh to this one. Instead I’m going to give it another try and go back to my original idea of a layout similar to the duplex. I learned a lot form this attempt, and hopefully the next one will be good enough to connect my bathtub floor.
Here’s what I’m hoping to do next. Luckily I’ll be able to use the finished bathtub floor and just rotate it to fit the new layout. I’ve found out that my biggest struggle is constructing doors that actually line up well enough to close. That’s why I’m thinking of doing two options for the back side of the tent. It won’t have a door on it regardless so a large vestibule isn’t necessary.
Option 1 has the 1.1 sil-poly extend up the backside, leaving a 4 inch gap of mesh before reaching the fly. This would allow me to have smaller doors that would still provide solid coverage of rain. While this would still be technically making two doors, they wouldn’t need to line up so precisely. Cons could be the extra weight of the floor extending upward would lead to more sag on the fly.
Option two would be to have the same size mesh piece as the front and have the doors extend approx. 12 inches outward. I could also construct the back piece as one large triangle and attach a pullout on the bottom of it to keep it tight and pulled away from the mesh. This would mean I wouldn’t need to make them doors but could reduce airflow. I’m also not sure how I would make the basket area correctly with the solid-piece idea since I couldn’t really sew it down a few inches to allow the trekking pole to sit in it correctly.
