Step One: Choose a spot where you want to hang the tarp. Make sure it is not over low ground where water may puddle or pool. Look for a spot in between two secure and strong trees and branches to secure your rope to.
Step Two: Have the necessary materials laid out,
Tarps: Do not feel like you have to go to an outdoor store to get one, a tarp is a tarp!! Canadian tire or Walmart is fine
Rope: Choose a rope that is light and easy to carry!
Paracord: More flexible, lightweight and multi purpose then rope.
Step Three: Tie the rope on one side using a figure 8 knot knot and tie the other side using a slip knot. Rope can be low to the ground at this point.
Step Four: Fold you tarp in half and lay the middle seem along the rope. This will make your tarp a triangle shape which is ideal because you do not want to it to lie flat otherwise water might puddle in the middle and weigh down your tarp!
Step Five: Take the Paracord and attached one end to the silver lined holes on the tarp and attach the other side to the rope.
Step Six: Tighten up the Slip knot until you tarp is as high as you would like.
Step Seven: Tie off the four corners of the tarp with left over paracord. Make sure that the corners are lower then your main rope.
YOU ARE DONE!!
This above example is good because water will run off of it and not puddle!
Use you tarp to keep bags dry or even set your tent up underneath it. If I had done this the first night of the Golden Hinde trip it might have been a different trip. You may need to tighten as needed on windy nights.
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