Hammock Water Breaks with straps 

I've taken a piece of paracord and tied a heavy washer to one end, and tie the other end on the carabiner (latch side) and it works great.

I haven't seen the Reddit posts yet - but in the 30+ years I've been hanging in hammocks, have generally used a bandanna or rag or whatever tied above the knot or carabiner or buckle to divert, and it's worked fine under normal/typical circumstances. That does mean you carry several grams of water until your bandanna/rag dries out the next day, but I'm not generally super worried about that. The carabiner does prevent the material itself from wicking water to the hammock though. Metal 'biners can't wick (though a soft 'biner/shackle will).

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great info!

Hey Derek, As an even a simpler version of Laochri's good solution - didn't you demonstrate that a simple girth/lark's head-hitched piece of para-cord dangling on the hammock side of the suspension connection point worked very, very well?

How does a buckle system perform (battle buckles or superior hammock buckles i.e) vs a carabiner.