Replacing tonneau cover
 

I'm adding race hatches over my motors, and padding around my windshield, so I need a new tonneau cover. Need some ideas.

Does your tonneau cover cover up the front side intake vents for your engine compartment? I drag my boat around the country, sometimes in the rain. Road spray blowing thru my engine compartment can make a mess in there. Are your vents covered? Anyone have pictures of your gal covered up?

Also, I need some ideas for my upholstery guy. What does the padding look like around your windshield/race fairing? Again, pictures would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Brian

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

No pictures of my 32 with a cover on, but my factory cover does cover the side vent openings.

the 27 with race fairing.

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

US1 any more pics looks nice :cool:

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

Oh yeah, gots lots of pictures of the 27.

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

Brian, I'll get a picture of my 32 with the cockpit cover installed if you still need one.

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

US1 very nice i really like the red motors :cool:

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

Hey Guys,

Thanks for the pics. The fairing padding one will come real handy.

Still looking for a pic with the tonneau cover in place. Here's my old cover - the only picture I have of it. Note the side vents are not covered. I'd like to change this... any ideas?

Thanks,
Brian

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

P4- I had a custom cover made for mine last year.LOVE IT...... wheather or not the boat sits outside on a regular basis I feel makes a big difference on how the cover should be made.....In my case the boat sits outside in my driveway....I had it made to go stem to stern and when its on it goes just under the rubrail and under the swim platform.......it uses the adjustable "post" in the cockpit from the previous cover...... It covers the air vents, keeps the sun off the deck and the junk out of the cockpit......it has a bungee cord sewn in that goes all the way around the lower edge of it so it snugs itself up under the rubrail when you put it on.......I can put it on myself..........there are eyelets about every 4' around the lower edge also and the guy made me up a bunch of bungee cords with big plastic S hooks in them so I can lash the cover down tight to the trailer I beams while underway .....they arn't reqd at rest......it also has cutouts for my cleats so I can leave the boat in the water overnight with the cover on and velcro sealed flaps to cover the holes when the cleats are not in use......... and yes it is purple.......it is definatly a heavy duty all weather cover.......not everybody needs all that though.......dont have a pic right now...........doug

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

This is my cover on the similar boat. It too does not cover the side vents. My plan was to make a tailering cover that went down the sides and secured to the trailer. Actually, I'm going to start making covers. If you are interested, PM and we'll talk.

Bryan

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

Thanks Doug, I have a full cover for beak-to-transom coverage (although now that I think of it, that one will need some tweeking, too). It's not very practical for towing, tho. The rest of the time, the boat stays in the garage, so I typically don't use my full cover.

Bryan, my tonneau cover is pretty close to yours. I just need to extend the sun pad area up about 8" to make room for the race hatches, plus fairing padding. I have a local guy, but looking for some ideas before I have him dig in. Maybe some separate snap on covers for the vents might work to keep the spray out.

Thanks guys,
Brian

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

I have my buddy's 1997 42 in my building. It has the super-charger hatches with scoops. He had a real nice cover made for it. I pulled back the "Dust Cover" he had made last fall and took a few shots of the Cockpit Cover. Note the air vents with screens and the tie down straps on the back. With the old cover, the rear snaps came undone on a road trip. The cover beat the crap out of the powdercoated rails. Problem solved with these straps. Also note the vent cover. Part of the main cover, just added some snaps to the vent. Hope this helps.

OK, I give up... How the heck do I put the pictures in here???

Re: Replacing tonneau cover
 

Looks like your cover will have to come down to the rubrail in order to cover the vents. My boat is newer, so the vents are higher and the cover doesn't have to go down as far.

I looked at a 27 at 1 time that had the snaps screwed to the underside of the rub rail for the tonneau cover. Just a thought.