tow with cockpit cover?
 

Just a quick question. I have a 292 and was wondering if people tow with their cockpit cover snapped on? Thanks for any advice.

I do with my 24 ft., no problems.

Make sure that ALL the snaps are snapped!!

I tow my 353 with the cover...No problems.

Dave

Same here - my cover fits extremely tight, so I'm not too worried about it. If the weather's nice, I'll run without it, but my truck has mud flaps - I'm just worried about rock chips in the gel and windsheild.

No problem on mine either. It also helps protect the windshield, and from what I've read here about them they are very expensive. Also keeps all the road crap out of your interior.

I put a strip of shrinkwrap tape across the front edge, but that was to go 400 miles...

Been wondering about this since I tow about 100 miles each way everytime I go out...always with the cover stowed b/c I wouldn't want to have it unsnapping underway.

Glad to see this is something others are doing - like it when something is proven. Thanks all.

Test it on a local trip, not all covers handle the same.

I had trouble when I first bought my boat, the cover would come unsnapped in front of the windshield. So I replaced the cover side of the snaps and haven't had a problem since.

It will do fine

True, we towed my friends 353 with the cover last year because of rain and it came off and I was behind him and ran it over! He was the person that always said never tow with a cover!! he did once and that was the result!
I never tow with mine, costs alot to replace and if it does rain the interior will be fine if it gets wet, I usually don't tow mine unless its a nice day anyway.

Exactly what I want to avoid and will test with a short tow first.

I'm fortunate in that my cover has straps underneath which wrap around the rear rails (just before the swim step), so I think even if the worst happened and it unsnapped I wouldn't lose the cover into traffic, I'd just have about 17 feet of canvas flapping crazily at the scared, honking drivers behind me :D

Thanks Fastmcars for posting this question and everyone else for chiming in.

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I'm fortunate in that my cover has straps underneath which wrap around the rear rails (just before the swim step), so I think even if the worst happened and it unsnapped I wouldn't lose the cover into traffic, I'd just have about 17 feet of canvas flapping crazily at the scared, honking drivers behind me :D

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Thats the worst part, they ripped right off of my friends!!
Just don't tow with it.

If it's nice out and going shorter distance I'll go topless!
For longer trips like to use cover to keep dirt & dust out of cockpit.
On one boat w/ used cover it would start to peel off of snaps, so I duct taped down the leading edge for a long trip.