"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:24:37 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Oh ... I also did not shrink-rap anything. I just buttoned up the full
enclosure and it survived fine, despite a couple of heavy snowfalls.

Personally I would recommend the shrink wrap for living on an older
boat that very likely has drafty window frames and hatches.



The other advantage of the shrink wrap is that if installed with a proper
frame, snow mostly slid off it.

I had quite a bit of snow on top of the flybridge canvas after one storm
which made me nervous, but it held ok and melted fast.

The Navigator has one design feature that is good in some ways, but bad in
another. All of the main cabin and pilothouse windows are fixed ... none
open. That's good for having no leaks or taking a greenie in the cabin, but
it's a disadvantage when you want lots of outside air. The only openings
are a glass sliding door on the starboard side of the pilothouse, a sliding
glass hatchway leading from the pilothouse up to the upper station and two
large sliders on the rear of the main cabin leading to the cockpit. They
used to have screen sliders as well, but too many people tried to walk
through them, so I took them off. On still, hot days you need a large fan
running to move the air through the boat or close everything up and run the
AC.

Eisboch