Harbor Freight has real tarps for a price not more than about 2x the
blue plastic, though the grommets could stand reinforcing. Anyway, they
also sell a strapping tool and strapping that did a good job on my boat.

HTH,
Courtney

Jim wrote:

If you can't find old fish net -- use the plastic snow fence stuff Home
Despot sells. I just got 3 years out of a silver tarp -- probably could
have got a few more if I padded the mast and uprights better.

Don White wrote:

"JAXAshby" wrote in message
...

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;


the cheapest, thinnest blue poly tarp lasts well through until spring
and
beyond is you put (cheap) rope back and forth over the top of the tarp.




Or even better...if you can get an old commercial type fishing net.
If you
fasten that on properly, the tarp has nowhere to go.
I found a 'made in China' canvas tarp on sale at an auto/tool type store.
(about $ 100.00 US for an 18' x 24')




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s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619