I came across this on another website where I saw someone was hoisting a sail of some sort in order to shade a section of his rink. I have an older blue tarp - 80' long that was used for the rink a number of years ago. Any reason why I couldn't rig something to hoist it between two giant maple trees that would shade the rink - other than it being a giant blue eyesore from December - March.
First thing first, I would need to wait until February to see how high I would need to raise it in order to protect the north side from the warmer sun. I can just see my wife's eyes roll back into her head when I explain to hear what I plan to do.
Has anyone here ever tried this or something similar?