Tents

Another episode in the saga of building Tent #5 (see this post and that post). I've attaching loops to the edge of the roof from which to hang the walls. The triangular roof panels are roughly 26" at the widest point, so I figured I would space loops every 6-1/2", four per panel, and would just wing it on the rectangular front-and-back roof panels. So I started at the right-hand seam of the tent front and started attaching loops every 6-1/2". To my great surprise, when I got halfway around, to the left-hand seam of the tent back, the next loop fell exactly on the seam, where I would have chosen to put it anyway. To my even greater surprise, when I got the rest of the way around, the measurement from the last loop I attached to the first one was almost exactly 6-1/2". The odds of that happening are comparable to those of drawing a Royal Fizzbim in your first game. It perhaps indicates the existence of a benevolent God who wants me to finish this tent before I die.

Next up: attaching to the tops of the walls a bunch of toggle-and-loop assemblies that are supposed to hang from the 96 loops I just attached to the roof edge. And making sure I've got webbing stake loops sewn to the wall bottom all the way around. And then making guy-ropes. And the stakes won't actually go through the sewn-in webbing stake-loops; there will be short twine loops between the two, so I have to make those. And a ridge-pole -- I'm thinking clear pine 2"x3" or 2"x4", a little over 6' long. And there's the matter of center-poles: I think it's too late to try to build new ones by this Pennsic, so I'll probably just get some longer pipes to connect the wheelbarrow-handles that we've been using as center poles for 28 years now.