msg43
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OK, so this is going to either get laughed out of town or maybe earn a raised eyebrow of interest from the more knowledgeable members of the community:
I want to protect a wood boat which is sitting at a residential dock. No "shed" is allowed. The owner wants to use the boat as an office, come and go, and show off the boat... so a boat cover is not a good option. I have been scratching my head over how to protect this beautiful varnish from sun and rain in a zone 10 (sub) topical climate.
I hit on the idea (again, probably not a novel or even a good idea, but I can't find anyone else doing it or talking about it) of using mooring whips and stretching a canvas between them every 10 feet or so and having a makeshift canopy over the boat. When the boat leaves the dock the whips stand straight up and the canopy falls in a pile around the bottom of the whip bases.
For those who can't visualize it, look at the pics in the link below of the mooring whips, and then imagine 3x or 4x as many on the dock and a canvas stretched between them to create a canopy...
Thanks for reading this. Hoping between the rotten tomatoes I get at least a couple of helpful replies!
I want to protect a wood boat which is sitting at a residential dock. No "shed" is allowed. The owner wants to use the boat as an office, come and go, and show off the boat... so a boat cover is not a good option. I have been scratching my head over how to protect this beautiful varnish from sun and rain in a zone 10 (sub) topical climate.
I hit on the idea (again, probably not a novel or even a good idea, but I can't find anyone else doing it or talking about it) of using mooring whips and stretching a canvas between them every 10 feet or so and having a makeshift canopy over the boat. When the boat leaves the dock the whips stand straight up and the canopy falls in a pile around the bottom of the whip bases.
For those who can't visualize it, look at the pics in the link below of the mooring whips, and then imagine 3x or 4x as many on the dock and a canvas stretched between them to create a canopy...
Thanks for reading this. Hoping between the rotten tomatoes I get at least a couple of helpful replies!
