Completing the Ray-Way Tarp and Net-Tent

Well, it's taken us a while, but my Ray-Way Tarp and Net-Tent are now complete, having finished the Net-Tent tonight. My wife Dot did the lion's share of the work - it's a fair bit of sewing, to be sure. It's really been a labor of LOVE on her part, too - she doesn't backpack.

So, every good ultra light backpacker (which I am not, but let's pretend) will want to know the weight. When I weighed the tarp before, I mis-weighed it by counting my 200 gram weights as 100 grams. Oops! Anyway, here are the correct figures.

Component	Advertised weight	My weight
Two-person tarp	16.76 ounces (before sealing)	17.84 ounces (505.8 grams)
8 Stakes		2.87 ounces (81.5 grams)
Net-Tent	about 12 ounces	13.85 ounces (392.5 grams)
TOTAL		34.56 ounces (979.8 grams)

Also consider that with the Net-Tent completed, I no longer need the ground cloth, since the Net-Tent does double-duty, and that saves me 114.1 grams, or 4 ounces.

I added about 10 grams to the weight of the tent by swapping out all the brown flatlines for white cord. Why? Because I found that I absolutely cannot untie the broun flatline when wet.