You need a good day so you can lay diagonal. When you lay diagonally across the bias of the fabric you lay ergonomically flat. When you try and hang a hammock right you are stuck in a cocoon with bowed shoulders and hyperextended knees and ankles.

How does increasing the angle to 30 degrees affect the diagonal lie. It would seem to be more banana like and less flat.

I commented above about my solution of bending about a foot of shock cord to the ridge line to take up the slack when hanging at a 30⁰ angle, but not overstrain the ridge line if I hang the hammock at a tighter angle (as Hennessy seems to recommend). It does leave a diagonal fold in the bug net but keeps it out of my face.

The suspension cord is strong enough for a flat hang angle, and there’s nothing magically right about 30⁰ beyond that being the angle at which the tension on each suspension line is equal to the total load—pick an angle that is steeper than the very flat angle Hennessy’s videos show but shallow enough for a comfortable sleeping position and you might be happy.

I have the same problem with my deep jungle asym zip: When the hammock is hung at a 30⁰ angle (measured with a protractor), the ridge line drops into my face and the bug net is useless.

My solution was to bend about a foot of shock cord to the ridgeline near one end and tie the other end of the shock cord to the bowline with which the ridge line is anchored. It is taut enough to hold the ridge line up when the hammock is pitched with a 30⁰ angle on the suspension, yet loose enough to stretch all the way out if it is pitched with a sufficiently flat angle to pull the whole ridge line taut.

I do have a diagonal fold of bug net a few inches long when hung at 30⁰ but that’s acceptable now that it gets the bug net out of my face.

Okay, I’m doing a little test here.

Thanks for the encouragement, Derek. So far I have discovered a gripping knot which works better for me than either the Prusik or the Klemheist. It’s the Distel knot, and I found some people on Hammock Forums talking about it. The other two knots work well on the bury part of my whoopie slings, but not a single thickness, and not two single parts side by side. I am using 3/32″ paracord on 7/64″ Amsteel with no slippage so far.
I am trying to find an easy, one-handed way to tighten the tarp lines while sitting in the hammock. One idea I had was to connect the two lines together in the center using the long axis of a D carabiner. By rotating the carabiner to the short axis, the whole loop gets 2 inches shorter. The carabiner will stay in this position (I hope) because the rain fly itself will hold it in place. Will try it tonight when I camp on the local disc golf course!

Sounds like an interesting idea! Let me know how it works and we can illustrate it.