Here's a luxurious recliner you can take on your next camping trip. It is wonderfully supportive, perfectly comfortable, small to stow, relatively easy to make, and looks more polished than just about anything you can buy. The canvas and cordage skills you'll use making it can extend to other kinds of hammocks and small-boat accessories. Your biggest challenge will be clearing your companions out of the chair when you want to sit in it.
Materials:
1-1⁄4 yards of roughly 60″-wide canvas. (For chairs that will stay outdoors at home year-round I use Sunbrella.)
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Nice plan. I could see hanging it from the boom on a bigger boat. (No, not while under way!)
Thanks David! I think I’ll bring one along next time I’m out in my buddy’s keelboat.
To keep some knots in small cords from coming undone, I use a drop of super glue to “freeze” them in place. Of course, you have to untie them with a knife or pair of scissors.
I have three string hammock chairs hanging from the roof of my patio. They are very popular. My grandchildren love to play in them. I just recently purchased one that claims to be 7′ long. I haven’t tested it yet, but I am hoping it will be comfortable enough to sleep in. I have been looking for a hammock for a l-o-n-g time that van be hung from single support. I am a hammock camper. Have been for over 50-years. I even made a stand that I could erect in a canoe to hold my hammock, but PVC pipe will change shape under stress and slowly let you down.