Hi Danny....My wonderful wife got me a Fairclough cover in 2008. Cost was $4,000....it was a tuff nut to swallow, but, I have quite a bit of teak that I like to keep out of the weather and I do visit the boat every other week to charge the batteries and check to see if the rum has frozen (it hasn't yet...and almost makes it thru to the spring :-D ). The big selling point is that the cover should last 10-12-15 years and the frame will never need replacing. The other factors are that it goes on outside of the lifelines - no stress on them - and I can move around under the cover pretty easily. I string 4 brooding lamps with 100-150 w bulbs, so, if the sun isn't out, it is still quite comfortable under the cover for winter projects. The cover goes down to the waterline. installing/unistalling takes a couple who knows what they are doing about 4 hours. Mine consisted of about 18 pieces of 1"conduit, 12 16' 1x3's, and the cover in two pieces - bow and stern - with ties for shrouds and stays. Now, to keep the boat 98% dry...I do add an additonal cover over the bow and stern lacings and, sometimes, some plastic around the shrouds to deflect any leaks thru the zippers or where the shrouds are tied up over the toe rail. One more good point...in the spring I can just roll up one side and use large spring clamps to hold the roll of boat cover wherever I need it to be. I can ever re-do the teak under the tarp (Cetol) if the weather isn't cooperating or wax the topsides.
I did add a garboard plug at the bottom of the bilge...the hull was only about 1/2" at that point. My first and second year's, with the mast up, the bilge filled with water coming down the mast. Never again! In the years that the mast was down I was bone dry all winter long. Good luck with this one... Spencer Johnson 1984 C&C LF 38 "Alegria" #165 ~~~_/) * ~~~~ Mount Prospect, IL
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