My moorin may be very windy at time. How do you secure and tight the cover to the boat without fearing it flies away ?
1388584
This cover is designed to be strapped to a trailer. If you are leaving your boat in the water, I'm not sure it would work. Also, the cover does not go very far down the side of the boat. It's a nice cover for the price, but may not work for everyone.
1388585
We also add additional buggy cords when it is going to be extra windy but other wise the cover stays very tight
1097166
We just took it out for the first time on a very windy day on a local lake that had some small whitecaps and some speedboats causing wakes. It rolled enough to make us nervous, so we made sure to head into the wakes and not let them hit us sideways. We found that if we kept the seat bottoms half inflated, then our center of gravity was a bit lower, and we were clearly more stable.
2279823
Carl is correct. I have a similar dinghy that I keep in the slip alongside my boat. If you get a large enough cover it will keep it dry, but rainwater will pool in the center unless you rig some sort of pole/device that elevates the cover so the rain runs off.
1406288
On my covers there is at least one strap. I think the intent is that you use the draw string to pull the cover tight and use just one strap to further secure the cover if desired. I never use the strap at all and haven't had any problem with the covers blowing off, even in pretty strong winds.
906109
If you are trying to keep it from blowing in the wind anchoring it to cement blocks could work. The other day I did not have it anchored to anything and a good wind came through and it looked like a sail on a boat. I rolled it up. I do like it though. It is actually lightweight and built well. One end at the top of the curtain rod has a small round cap over the pin to protect it during shipment - you need to remove it --- I discovered it the hard way!
1912717
The rain will come through. Not as bad as it would without it. We bought furniture covers for ours. I do love this shade sail though! It is very well made. Stands up to strong wind and gives the right amount of shade and lets some air through so its not completely blocking the breeze. After using this one we also bought a 24 x 24 from the same company. These are great!!
1930925
There is a elastic around the edges.. I live on hill and get heavy winds and it has never blown off.
1157040
Hello, I agree with the first reply, you will have to get anchors or something with weight to hold it in place, we use ours when camping with our RV. We have it secured to our RV and to the grounds in many places along its base, and have yet to run into problems when the winds go above 20 mph. Just figure a way to give the base of it some weight and you will have no issues. I is a great tent and we love ours. I'd recommend some anchors cemented around it and you will gain the peace of mind it is secure in place. Over kill will never come back to bite you. We,ather and the winds as front line ahead of the storms are more fierce than many years ago, the negative is the cement, its not like dirt or grass. Your issue is holding it in place to wind. Act of GOD "Mother Nature" something you can't control Think over-kill and you will have no problems.
2109681
Not that I see, and I've had mine in some pretty high wind when some bad storms pushed through one day and it was not coming off in any way. It fits the grill pretty snug as is. I think if a draft of wind strong enough to lift it was to get under the cover, it'd probably take the whole grill out and you'd probably need to be taking cover in a storm that bad. :)
86134
How is it secured to resist wind? Guidelines? Weights? Do either come with it and if not where are they available?
446763
I used turnbuckles first, had a heavy wind and they twisted off, so went to heavy weight rope and fastened it down with redundant systems and it thus far has sailed through the winds. I am planning to take it down for our winter season and store it until next summer.
134810
I use the supports that came with the play pen cover for the boat. We first connect the play pen cover to the boat, then drape this blue cover over the top of that. My boat is 24 foot and it stretched from the front deck all the way back enought to cover the motor. Once you have it stretched out tie it down to the frame of the trailer. Then crawl back in under the play pen cover and place your poles in the area of your boat as needed to keep the cover tight. I had to drill holes in my poles so I could place pins in the poles to keep them from sliding down cause with this cover and the snow we had earlier in the year the weight pushed the poles down. Since we drilled the holes into the poles for teh pins we have never had any problems. We also us our bimi top lifted 6 inches up with the cover over the top of that which helps for water to run off easier. You will by doing it this way have a small opening on both sides of the boat in the aft area both on port and stern sides, but only one should have any type of access to the boat, by way of about a 1 foot tall by 2 foot long opening is all I have on my stern side which if you tie it down correctly no one should bother your boat.Hope this help you out and good luck with the boat.
2239667
The antenna will be fine in wind if you mount it properly. Don't secure it you might have a problem.
1574565
Maybe a typical thin blue tarp to keep the wind out. There's not a lot of support, it folds up on itself in one piece. You might be able to put this in some sort of container if you want to try that. I didn't have to worry about the wind because we have it in the garage.
609437
In my opinion this is not a suitable mooring cover, in heavy winds the elastic draw string my not have the strength to keep the cover fastened to the vessel.
377350
The best way to keep the rope out of the prop is with a "Kwik Tek Airhead Heavy Duty Boat Tow Harness". It has a floating end that keeps the rope from sinking.
541937
I use a bungee to anchor mine when it gets windy. Living in fl we get oceanbreezy but I don't think this would work for you.