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Do any of you trailer your toon with the mooring cover on?
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:28 pm
by mike
If it would stay on, I would love to keep all the road grime off my clean seats when taking my boat to the lake!
My cover has about a million snaps holding it on, cant see how it could come off?
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:40 pm
by Ngataki
I agree with you Mike, it for sure will keep the seats clean..
However, the experience I have is that the front part of the mooring cover takes a lot of wind load and starts to stretch..It can rip open the stiching seam...I was so concerned the first time I hauled my little pontoon that I quit doing it..Some rags and a spray bottle took care of the darn bugs..
You also need to constantly observe how this cover is behaving at 60/65 MPH.
Of course driving 45/50 might do the trick..
Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:36 pm
by HandymanHerb
They have a cover that made to be pulled with on to help cut down on the drag, but I heard from one that had them you had to put a towel on what ever the top touches or it would sand the finish off on a long trip.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:15 am
by FishinBilly
Just sitting in the driveway last year, a normal West Texas wind tore my cover all to hell. We are talking sustained of about 30 with gusts over 50. I'm not sure the cover could handle the constant 40-60mph wind on the hwy. And I sure would hate to be behind someone when the cover came off and landed on my windshield.
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:53 am
by mike
Yep, thats what I thought... Its too bad, but I guess I can make any guests clean the boat off real good when we get home!
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:17 am
by Ngataki
mike wrote:Yep, thats what I thought... Its too bad, but I guess I can make any guests clean the boat off real good when we get home!
There you go.. keep a six pack handy and you turn a negative into a positive..You see this will always work..
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 5:50 am
by 2toytrucks
For short trips from the storage building to the ramp, we leave our mooring cover on. That bieng said, the speed does not get above 35 mph. Never try and tow on the interstate with a mooring cover.
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:51 am
by MinneMurf
What did I do wrong?,, I towed mine 750 miles with the cover on with no problems at all..was I just lucky?...the dealership said to tow with it on!! Now I know that dealers are a very poor sorse of info on most things but I have about 1000 miles of towing on mine and still tight....guesss I was lucky.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:32 pm
by leon phelps
55 mph + 30 mph headwind gust = shreaded cover.
No cover manufacturer will say it is OK to trailer with cover.
Only covers that are OK to trailer with are waverunners. They have some sort of vacum shape that is made to be trailered.
Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:09 pm
by Backlash
MinneMurf wrote:What did I do wrong?,, I towed mine 750 miles with the cover on with no problems at all..was I just lucky?...the dealership said to tow with it on!! Now I know that dealers are a very poor sorse of info on most things but I have about 1000 miles of towing on mine and still tight....guesss I was lucky.
Same here, tow at 70+ MPH in gusty Kansas cross winds, No problems.