jimmwaller
Petty Officer 1st Class
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- Nov 30, 2013
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Hi all,
I could really use some help with boat covers. I really think I'm doing something wrong. I keep buying boat covers, but they fail every single rainstorm. If there's anywhere that the water can accumulate, it will and it drags the whole cover down with it.
For a while, I was buying those like nylon covers, but one storm and they'd accumulate water and rip. It's so annoying?I used support poles, but every time, there's just enough of a pouch where water can collect to just even like the size of a grapefruit or something and then just keeps building up until it rips the cover or pulls the support poles down. I started using like 3 tarps and a cloth cover, but those are starting to rip now after 2 storms. So I have three questions.
One, what am I doing wrong? I assumed that 2-3 support poles would be enough to stop any pouches, or I figured that a few pockets of water wouldn't be the end of the world, but clearly I was wrong. Is there some trick that I'm not aware of? My boat is in a yard, and none of the other boats seem to have the issues that I have.
Two, this is like the 4rd rainstorm this year where my cover has failed. It's an old Starcraft 22 aluminum, but it has carpeted floors over wood. Usually what happens is that the cover holds up for a while and then just suddenly fails and dumps all that water right onto the deck. This has happened probably 3-4 times this year.... is my floor screwed? I feel like that can't be good for it, but I also wonder if boat floors are tough enough to withstand this kind of thing occasionally. Just wondering if I should be panicking and planning to rebuild my floor at this point, or if I'm more in the place of "figure out how to really cover that boat ASAP, and don't let it happen again".
Any advice/thoughts/tips would be appreciated.
Thank you!!
I could really use some help with boat covers. I really think I'm doing something wrong. I keep buying boat covers, but they fail every single rainstorm. If there's anywhere that the water can accumulate, it will and it drags the whole cover down with it.
For a while, I was buying those like nylon covers, but one storm and they'd accumulate water and rip. It's so annoying?I used support poles, but every time, there's just enough of a pouch where water can collect to just even like the size of a grapefruit or something and then just keeps building up until it rips the cover or pulls the support poles down. I started using like 3 tarps and a cloth cover, but those are starting to rip now after 2 storms. So I have three questions.
One, what am I doing wrong? I assumed that 2-3 support poles would be enough to stop any pouches, or I figured that a few pockets of water wouldn't be the end of the world, but clearly I was wrong. Is there some trick that I'm not aware of? My boat is in a yard, and none of the other boats seem to have the issues that I have.
Two, this is like the 4rd rainstorm this year where my cover has failed. It's an old Starcraft 22 aluminum, but it has carpeted floors over wood. Usually what happens is that the cover holds up for a while and then just suddenly fails and dumps all that water right onto the deck. This has happened probably 3-4 times this year.... is my floor screwed? I feel like that can't be good for it, but I also wonder if boat floors are tough enough to withstand this kind of thing occasionally. Just wondering if I should be panicking and planning to rebuild my floor at this point, or if I'm more in the place of "figure out how to really cover that boat ASAP, and don't let it happen again".
Any advice/thoughts/tips would be appreciated.
Thank you!!