Snap on Travel Covers? Where to find *PICS*

Does anyone know where one could get a snap on cover like the one pictured? Nautique parts dont carry them,

Thanks!

If you have a tower I could certainly see the advantage of not having a cover that needs to go around those tower legs, yet to see a really good way to do thus where putting on the cover is not a slight PITA.
That being said, small price to pay for not having all that top deck exposed to the elements and all those visible dreaded snaps.
If you are locked in on snaps having them on the underside of the rub rail is the least intrusive way to use them.

Better not to have snaps than to have them, but some applications need them. Your cover will be best made by a custom shop. If you go that route, come to an agreement with the shop as to how many snaps will be used and where they will be located.

A NWZ mooring cover needs snaps. No other way to have a practical mooring cover without them, unless the boat is kept on a trailer or lift.

Art, No wake zone. 1990 to 1997+- Ski Nautique.

Not sure how we survived all those summers with our impractical mooring covers, Bruce.

Lifts and trailers make things easy... and dry. Mooring in the water requires you to get wet. Not sure why depth would matter, I’ve had depths ranging from 4-6’ and found the greater depth easier? Can’t expect to stay dry though.

TRBenj wrote: Mooring in the water requires you to get wet.

Not really, unless you have a cover that needs straps that require you to swim under the boat, or to get in the water to pull the cover over the corner of the swim platform.

On most of our boats, our draw string covers work fine and do not pool water. With the advent of the rope ratchet, there is even less chance for pooling water if you're fortunate to have one of those.. The NWZ is a tough nut due mostly to the draw string cover having to wrap around the platform. No way to change that without snaps. I don't own one of those boats, so I don't have to worry about it, although I do try to solve problems.

I favor the ratchet-strap covers. Throw it over the boat, stick a support pole or 2 under it, tighten the ratchet, and walk away. The rope system (as opposed to a strap) tends to wear the channel in the cover more quickly than a strap. It goes under the rubrail and stays put in wind. I have never towed a boat with one on, but people do it all the time. If it fits right put on correctly it will not flutter going down the road. Commercial Sewing made one for the '61 Nautique and it is perfect. They have patterns for many of the recent boats.

I'm not a fan of the snaps either but if you really want one try N3 boatworks in Indianapolis.
They have a bunch of covers for some of the older boats that they have been trying to get rid of for years at really cheap prices.

Snaps were something we though was a great idea 30 years ago. Now their all rusty.