When I had the seacraft, I tried several different covers, my friend who use to own a boatyard has the gun and stuff to do shrink wrapping. He told me he could make me a shrink wrap cover that would last multiple years and would keep the snow and ice off. I got 3 out of it and would have gotten more but I left it on too long in the spring and insects landed on it and birds came to peck at the insects and they shredded parts of it so I tossed it..but I got 3 years out of a cover that cost me 100 bucks. I had him come back and do my new boat this year. We built a simple (take apart) frame out of 5/4 pre-primed pine so I could have full headroom and open the engine hatch full, then shrink wrapped it with a zippered door in the stern. Instead of shrinking it to the hull all along the bottom like yards do, he folds over the ends inside and wraps a nylon belt all along the hull in the fold. This allows for loosing the belt in the spring to remove the wrap without cutting the plastic. Then in the fall you put up the frame and put the plastic back on, tighten the belt. It is not the prettiest set up but it works and he only charge me for materials (~ 200) so If I get a few years out of this that is sweet. I know of a guy with a regulator who got 5 and heard of someone who got 6 years out of one but I only got 3 out of the last one. I ordered some of that wide white tape so I can patch any holes should they occur. But now I have full headroom, power, and HEAT in there. I was thinking of subletting it to a few illegals but I don't want it messed up.
