They think that since wind is free , everything else should be too !! Killing me !! :P
Just tell'm for a real low cost ya can get them out of the sun when stopped,ya can make them a boom tent,you pick up a cheep tarp that is 2ft wider then the boat and just short of the size of the boom,plus a bag of 12 bungy cords[about $30 all and all Northen Tool] and sell it for $150.
It drapes over the boom and the down to the safety rails held with the bungys. You don't even need to sew anything.
Our preaching to the choir.
In my time doing this I could count o. My hands how many cut loose and spent the money like a stinkpoter
so what happened Ed ?