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Old 08-11-2017, 01:51 PM   #5
DavidM
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This is what I wrote over on the Mainship Yahoo site on the subject of shrink wrapping:

"There is something of a debate about shrink wrapping. Some say that you have to keep all snow off of the boat so that melting snow won't get in cracks around stanchions, freeze and crack the laminate. I don't do that and only shrink wrap the aft third of my P34 to keep snow out of the cockpit. I also trip the breaker that feeds the aft bilge pump as snow melt can get in the bilge, freeze and when the water level gets high enough to turn on the pump it will either run down the battery or damage the pump.

If I had a flybridge trawler I probably wound shrink wrap the whole boat."

But you must be talking about somewhere north to worry about heated storage and have prices that high. Even so last year I kept my Pilot 34 in a low cost yard in Connecticut for the winter for $1,200 including partial shrink wrap.

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