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Jeff_Clarke_bankone.com
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Initially Posted - 12/12/2002 : 22:48:04

I'm seriously thinking of shrink-wrapping my cat-25. Been looking at and studying the guys at the boat yard and really doesn't look that hard. I have a roofing torch which is a 1 + boat unit expense. There is a great company in Mich. called Dr Shrink , which has all the wrap, strapping, tape, vents and training video.

Has anybody was any experience they can share.

The url is : http://www.dr-shrink.com

The temps in the Midwest have been pretty cold , hopefully we will get a day soon (w/ little or no wind) to pull this off.

Jeff Clarke
Hailey Comet # 5163

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Ellis Bloomfield
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Response Posted - 12/13/2002 : 00:24:27

That's what the guy at Kings Cove in Hastings, Minnesota, said as he set fire to 20 some boats a month or so ago. The last I heard the damages were estimated at around 6 1/2 million. Frozen snot is hotter than a torch, once you get it going, and it really isn't that hard to get it going. Be careful.

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Steve Milby
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Response Posted - 12/13/2002 : 12:20:02

Jeff,

I had my boat shrink-wrapped about three years ago. It cost about $125.00, and, after carefully removing it at the end of the first winter, I re-used the same wrapping for two more years. The plastic material is very durable, although it can be torn. The last year that I used it, I had to use a plastic tarp over a part of it that had torn. It protected the boat very effectively, and spread over three years, wasn't at all expensive.

If you put it on yourself, cover the tops of all the lifeline stanchions with pieces of plastic, to prevent them from poking holes in the plastic. Also, tie pieces of plastic around the mast to smooth over the steaming light and the whisker pole pad eye. That will help prevent them from holing the plastic cloth.

This year, I found some inexpensive, industrial-strength vinyl tarps, and built an a-frame to hold each end of the mast about 15" higher than the bow and stern pulpits, and then covered the boat with the tarps. I think that system is also going to work well, and it is also inexpensive. This time, I removed the cotter pins from the mast spreaders, and let the spreaders hang, so they don't poke through the tarp.

Good luck!

Steve Milby "Captiva Wind" C-25 T/FK #2554

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