How should I store my small PVC inflatable tender on board?

[Pete7]

Covers are readily available if you are worried about UV degradation

Someone should tell Crewsaver. The buckles of the bag are just coated mild steel and rusted before we even finished our two week summer hols. The straps had fraid and snapped from sunshine within a year and the bag tore after 18 months. I e mailed them twice and they didn't even have the courtesy to reply

Shocked by the asking price for genuine cover, I bought a black £21 bicycle bag from Amazon which lasted 18 months, the largest size taking a 2.4m dinghy without too much trouble. Finally settled on one of those small trailer covers, so will see how long that lasts.

Vicious that sunshine in the Solent.

 

[mattonthesea]

If you can get access to a sturdy sewing machine it's fairly easy to make a dinghy bag. Surprised by the replacement cost of a Zodiac bag I bought a couple of metres of UV resistant, plasticated canvas and copied their pattern. I got some webbing and ripstop nylon offcuts from Cameron Balloons. The buckles and other adjusters we had from old bags and daysacks etc.