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Me being the lazy kind and not wanting to have to go outside and snap covers over the windshields, looking for ideas and setups of those that have been able to do covers installed from inside the cabin. I'm going to look at RV shops but maybe someone here has already come up with a simple set up? Thanks
What I did years ago on our camping trailer was epoxy magnets onto the glass in the corners and then we sewed magnets in window shade material. worked great, no holes to drill and no rusty snaps
"RickM" post=809208 wrote:
What I did years ago on our camping trailer was epoxy magnets onto the glass in the corners and then we sewed magnets in window shade material. worked great, no holes to drill and no rusty snaps
"RickM" post=809208 wrote:
What I did years ago on our camping trailer was epoxy magnets onto the glass in the corners and then we sewed magnets in window shade material. worked great, no holes to drill and no rusty snaps
Excellent idea, thanks for the feedback!
The magnets will affect the compass; this is probably something that you don't want to do on a boat.
1999 3788, Cummins 270 "Freedom"
2013 Boston Whaler 130 SS
Anacortes, WA
Isla Verde, PR
The original windshield cover on my boat was designed to fit under the windshield wipers. This was difficult to accomplish and I always worried that either the wipers would break or I would fall.
I had a new cover made that fits over the wipers and it is very easy to deploy.
2001 Bayliner 4788, Cummins 370's
Zodiac Yachtline 380, Yamaha 25hp
Sanger wakeboard boat
volunteer CA Delta tour guide
"RickM" post=809208 wrote:
What I did years ago on our camping trailer was epoxy magnets onto the glass in the corners and then we sewed magnets in window shade material. worked great, no holes to drill and no rusty snaps
Excellent idea, thanks for the feedback!
The magnets will affect the compass; this is probably something that you don't want to do on a boat.
Magnetic field strength falls off roughly as 1/d^3, so it attenuates much more quickly than most things things you're used to (which typically fall off as 1/d^2).
Still, it's trivial to test it before epoxying in magnets. You can also epoxy in two magnets flipped N/S right next to each other (so one magnet's N faces the windshield, the other magnet's S faces the windshield). For distances about the scale of the separation between the magnets, there will still be a magnetic field. But for larger distances (like to the compass), the two fields will average and cancel each other out.
I used the RV solution... great for ease of use and privacy too.... heat deflection from saloon on sunny days... but as mentioned above do not stop those pesky leaks like outside sunbrella curtains...
easy to install, and affordable... in my boat 4+ years now with stick on mounts per instructions...
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