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On 16 Sep 2004 19:05:16 -0700, wrote:

telequest wrote in message news:ok11d.35745$D%.5126@attbi_s51...
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.

There are important advantages to shrink-wrapping most boats:

1) since you can't buy a real tarp anymore unless you are quite rich,
you won't have plastic shreads from useless plastic tarps all over
your property if it has to stay wrapped for more than one season;
/cut/

I was favorably impressed by a plastic tarp I bought about a year ago.
It was cheap.
It was blue one side, silver the other.
There were evidently reinforcing fibers in it.
It had brass eyelets.

Momma threw it over the work boat on its trailer so it was about 20 X
12 feet, and pulled it taught with elastic straps. The thing was taut
as a drum. I expected it to last a week. but three months and some
rain storms later, it was untorn.
Yeppers!

Brian Whatcott Altus OK