Hey Don, that works great, I drilled caps and installed bolts&nuts to them before putting them on the PVC pipe for the tarp eyelets.

Thanks for your response.  I beleive this also could be used as a wind break with one end of the tarp staked to the ground.

When in Alaska and it was raining we made a lean to fortress with tarps and bunjy cords, one from each direction to cover our tents and a hole in the center for our fire, it worked great. It was for the rain of course but would also work for the sun. You would be amazed what you can build with some blue tarps and bunjy cords and never as much as harm a tree, and these were small trees at the best.

The bunjy cords allow the tarp to flex and stretch, it worked much better than tying in hard to solid objects plus allowed us to push the water off with ease.

I bought 4 sch 40 pieces of pipe and cut them down to 7 feet.  Drilled a 1/4 inch hole in the end and put a 1/4 eyebolt in there.  I took 4 two foot pieces of rebar and hammered into the ground at corner points.  Used some little oval hook ups to the tarp and eyebolt.  These are the kind that have the little section that screws back.  All these hookups didn't take long but I do see that I am still going to have to put some tent pegs at each corner to tie it back.  The tarp tends to sag in the middle and bends the pvc pipe somewhat.  The cost was a whole lot cheaper than the cheapest canopy for sure.