Tyvek sails

Tyvek is wonderful stuff. Normally used for house wrap I can beleive just how strong it is. When I was perfecting the design of my boom tent I used it as a templating material and even though I kept it up in very strong winds it stayed intact. On the downside it is very noisy and produces a sort of metalic cracking sound as it moves in the wind.  I recently made a sail out of it too and as wind does not travel through the material it actually works surprizingly well and for the money it unbeatable, I just wish you could get it without the writing on it !

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[George]

You can get it without writing on it:

http://www.materialconcepts.com/store/categories/0300

I purchased some to make a sun fly. Not hard to work with, but not as easy as Sunbrella. The sun fly came out great, but it does make noise in a breeze. I reinforced the edges and across its length and width with nylon webbing to take some of the load of stretching the guy, and that helps.

[Mark]

George

Thanks for this, I've been looking for some time for non printed Tyvek.