Boat Cover Question

[jojo]

Hey guys,

What's a good method for covering a boat that's always in the water? The boat is a 2005 Chapparal 215, and the owner would prefer not to have snaps on the boat if at all possible. So how could this thing be secured? How awkward is it or is it even possible to fit it for a cover while it's in the water?
Thanks!
Jo

[Mike8560]

WellSWell you could have a mooring cover that comes over the side some with a drawcord.
You would need access for the dock lines and the boat would have to be ties off not to rub the cover

[JuneC]

Suction cups - but they don't hold all that well IMHO.  I'd go with sand bags.  With sand bags, though, make sure there's an anchor of some sort inside the boat to keep the whole thing from slipping over one side and going to bottom.  Just a tether or something to prevent loss if the cover goes off-center.

June

[Peppy]

Good thinking June! Wouldn't have thought of that I bet. Not till it was made *and at the bottom of the lake* anyway. You Florida guys are crazy, A 21' boat here is next to worthless without a trailer. Suction cups! HA!

Isn't there a way to get it to a dock or pull it out of the water to fit it? Just asking, we do it any chance we get.

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[Mike8560]

Peppy most of my customer here don't have a trilor the boat is on the lift out back and no room for a trailor in the yard or the boat is in a marina on a rack no small boat in the watt hardly at all. There are boats on trailors here but not many bother to spend extra money nor canvas on them.


Hen I was in NH I had a 27' bunk trailor so any boat that came by water on the lake I'd haul out just abou anything would fit on that bunk trailor.