Larry, I will add to Rick's endorsement of Sailor's Tailor. They were a good company to order from. I went with their polyduck fabric. I originally added 2 vents on the order, then had them install a total of 4. 2 aft facing over the cockpit and 2 forward over the deck. We get a lot of humid weather up here in the summer and I wanted good ventilation. The cover works very well for trailering, lifting up to the horizontal mast and using skirt tie downs. No flapping at 60. As a storage cover in our marina dry sail yard it is good as well, with the mast up. Takes us 5 minutes to roll it up and drop into the truck bed, and 10-15 to put it back on. Incoming thunderstorms will get it done faster, hot hot weather will slow you down for beer break. You have to get used to the sequence on the bow by sorting it out a few times. Lots of openings around the stanchions. Reinforcing patches where needed, and shock cord all around with stainless clips at each opening. Heavy web loops for tie downs. Here is a link to a picasa album that will show you details of ours in both trailer and mast up storage mode. https://picasaweb.google.com/107736047506305867911/M17Cover# Hope this helps. Bill Makin' Time M17 #622 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Larry E Yake <leyake@juno.com> wrote:
Rick, How's your cover from Sailors Taylor working out? Satisfied with it? Which fabric did you use? Larry
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 06:36:13 -0400 Rick Davies <jdavies104@gmail.com> writes:
Three years ago I did the full eight-coat Epifanes gloss thing and bought a cover from Sailors Taylor. The varnish still looks like new.
Rick M17 #633 Lynne L