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Wayne.B

On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 23:14:50 -0500, wrote:

My plan B is to get the guy who made the new top for my boat lift to
do it.
This guy works with 20 oz or heavier poly tarp material. That is not
to be confused with the 4-6 oz material you see in a "heavy duty" tarp
at the Home Depot. This is what they make logging truck tarps out of
but it comes in a lot of colors and some patterns. He will make
anything you want.

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That's the way I'd go. We had a new flybridge enclosure made last
year out of so called "trucker's vinyl" (vinyl coated polyester),
probably the same material you are talking about. It is 20 oz vinyl
and has all welded seems so there is no where it can leak. It is
much more durable than Sunbrella, stretches into place, and routinely
lasts more than 10 years down in the Caribbean. Unless you examine it
very closely it looks the same as Sunbrella.