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| Betty in her winter coat |
Chris here. The bubble most "liveaboards" put around their boats is the winter wrap. It's basically the same shrink wrap that you'd use to store store your boat in the winter, except there's a wood frame under it to give you enough space to be inside it. They build a nice wooden door for it too.
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| Nice wooden door |
After the builders are done with the wooden frame (amazingly, no nails or screws into the boat itself!), they drape the massive plastic sheeting over it, tie it down, and then use gas-powered heat guns to shrink it to a nice fit. The use shrink tape where needed, and when done well there's not much tape to be seen.
On a sunny day there's a nice greenhouse effect. Out on the aft deck, when it was 33 degrees on the dock, it was actually 85 degrees under the wrap. Of course, when the sun goes down, so does the thermometer. But the wrap definitely acts as insulation, and also keeps the rain away too.
We've been through one high-wind day and its still there. I'm hoping it stays put till April.
Here are some of our neighbors:
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