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I, too, go the tarp route, 20X30 and it has done me right for some time now. I build a T-type wood thing to place on the foredeck/bow and lay a 2x2 from my console to the bow, then from the console to the top of the outboard. Tie them together, put carpet or an old towel over the edges/corners of the 2x2's so the tarp won't get rubbed through, then run one long line from the "spine" out to the bowrail to the gunwales for additional support for the tarp then tie the grommets on the tarp off underneath the whole boat, has worked for almost 20 years. Lately, as an added precaution and because we have the extra rope, we take the rope and spin it around the whole boat so the tarp really won't come off. Doesn't take long and have never had a single issue. This is for the most simplest Center Console non-T-top boat, however, if I had any other boat, I'm sure I'd do the same thing and in no way would I pay the however-much-it-is to shrinkwrap the boat, had I the money then maybe, but I'd save it and tarp it up, it is only for what?, 4 or 5 months or so.
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