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Our first full season as boat owners is about to end. We have a 20+year old
33-foot Carver Voyager on Lake Michigan in Northern Illinois. We're
storing it outside on the marina property. Is it necessary to shrink wrap
the boat? What does that accomplish? This is a tall boat with an upper and
lower (inside) piloting station and a very high upper radar arch. Thanks.

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Shrink wrap gives you the benefits of inside storage without the cost.
If you have side decks, it also gives you the chance to work on the
boat over the winter, You need to include a door (zippered opening)
at your swim platform or gate. You also want to have good
ventilation. I have a bowsprite which lets the boat breath very well
(can leave ports open).
The real key is who does the wrap. Some are better at it (done more
boats or understand the needs of the owner better). Have wrapped the
boat for the last 4 or 5 years (on the Chesapeake) and been very happy
with the clean boat when she is unwrapped in the spring. On the
trawler a frame is added from the radar to create a peak (so the snow
slides off). The T-Top becomes part of the frame when it is taken
down to form the peak. Cost is somewhere between 900. To 1100
(depends on amount wrap and time to do). CAP Schipper