PVC Boat Cover Frame?

[RichBone]

Nice looking job. Tarp's big enough to fasten together underneath. Got it marked for disassembly and reassembly?

Rich

 

[RAD]

Roy,
Nice job and its not over engineered cause there's a big difference with a shrink wrap cover with wind and snow vs blue tarp, when I covered mine a few years back to work through the winter I spent a lot of time re securing the tarp and also could have had a little more support under the tarp and my frame system was made from steel conduit

 

[ruidh]

Nice looking job. Tarp's big enough to fasten together underneath. Got it marked for disassembly and reassembly?

Yes. I was working from numbered cutlist. Each truss is numbered 1 to 11 from front to back. All of the pieces connecting the trusses forward and aft are identical with three obvious exceptions.

Nice job and its not over engineered cause there's a big difference with a shrink wrap cover with wind and snow vs blue tarp, when I covered mine a few years back to work through the winter I spent a lot of time re securing the tarp and also could have had a little more support under the tarp and my frame system was made from steel conduit

Thanks, Bob. I need to go out there today or tomorrow and check the tarp.

 

[rgranger]

I'm thinking about making a frame for a cover out of shedule 40 PVC pipe instead of springing for another shrinkwrap job. I'm seeing various ways of pending PVC and I think I can put a 1 foot radius 45 degree bend (an obtuse angle of 135 degrees) in a bunch of pieces, cut them to various sizes and frame it out on my ODay 23.

Thoughts?

I had thought about doing such a thing last year and even went so far as to buy a box full of T-connectors off of eBay. Ended up going in a different direction ... but I still have the box of T-connectors. If you decide to do this, contact me and I'll let you have them for the price of postage.

r

 

[ruidh]

I'm all done, but perhaps someone else wants to try it.

I came down to to boatyard to check the cover and add a few lashings where I had run out of line. My cover was still tight despite the loose tarp, but the guy two boats down from me, who has many fewer pvc pieces in his frame, has two puddles in his tarp already.

 

[chace]

RBone,

Your example looks farily straight forward and relatively quick to do (which with three kids under 7 and snow ready to fly time is my enemy!) couple of quick questions...

what size pipe did you use? what did you use to attach the pipe to the bow and stern pulpits?

I am way behind and in a bind~
luck snow has not really start to fly here in ME, if you could response at your earliest I'd much appreciate it.