Overnighting without Camper Top
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Overnighting without Camper Top
This will be my first summer without a camper top on my boat. I will probably put my cockpit cover on at night to at least keep the boat dry. What do you guys do?
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i kep the cockpit cover on the boat, so I put that one and slid on my belly across the sun pad. I have left it undocvered on a dry night, but that pretty rare. the dew makes it easy to wipe down and have a clean boat in the morning though.
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That's what I do just cockpit cover , But beware !! Last summer we spent a couple of nights at a marina ,
It was a lovely evening so I only did the cover half up ,about a hour later we were sitting in a in a bar when the heavens opened up thunder lightning the lot , I am now kicking myself for not doing the cover all the way up . Returning to the boat a few hours later to my surprise the guy in the cruiser next to me had seen the cover half of and jump on board and popped all the studs down for me. .
I undone the last few on the corner of the sunpad crawled in leavening the studs undone .
At about 5 am I need to go but I couldn't get out . The guy in the cruiser had heard the corner of the cover flapping about and thought it had come undone so he got up in the middle of the night and popped it back down again , the only way I could undo the studs was to put my hand between two studs and make a fist and they popped open . We laughted about it later .
It was a lovely evening so I only did the cover half up ,about a hour later we were sitting in a in a bar when the heavens opened up thunder lightning the lot , I am now kicking myself for not doing the cover all the way up . Returning to the boat a few hours later to my surprise the guy in the cruiser next to me had seen the cover half of and jump on board and popped all the studs down for me. .
I undone the last few on the corner of the sunpad crawled in leavening the studs undone .
At about 5 am I need to go but I couldn't get out . The guy in the cruiser had heard the corner of the cover flapping about and thought it had come undone so he got up in the middle of the night and popped it back down again , the only way I could undo the studs was to put my hand between two studs and make a fist and they popped open . We laughted about it later .
Last edited by paul buckner; 03-25-2014 at 04:36 AM.