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Article #145: when Choosing Boat Covers, Canvas Can't Be Beat

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If you are in the market for boat covers, It is only after years of using boats
canvas is the way to go. This sturdy, covers canvas will become permeable and
heavy duty material will give your boat perhaps allow some elements to pierce
the best protection possible from the sun between its threads. This is true of all
and other weather, as well as any other material, having stretched out over time
uncontrollable elements and factors. In and widened the weaving between threads.
terms of boat covers, canvas is the Because of its tight weave and heavy
heaviest, thickest material available and weight, especially in boat covers, canvas
will assure good preservation of your will last a lot longer before this occurs
boat. than most materials.
Canvas is actually made of cotton and is Canvas is used for many other things
woven in a very simple under-over tight besides storage boat covers. Canvas can
weave. As a cloth and for boat covers, also make an excellent canopy for your
canvas comes in two different types: boat, much like a bimini top, helping to
plain and Duck, with the threads of the shade you from the sun while you are out
Duck canvas being more tightly woven. It on the lake. It is also used by artists
is also graded in two ways, by weight and because of its thickness and ability to
by number. The numbers are in reverse of stretch. This makes the media on which
the weight, so a higher number equals a the paint goes smoother and slightly
lighter material. porous, absorbing the oil paint better
In the past, canvas was made of linen and and more evenly.
was not as good of a solution for boat By the same token, when choosing boat
covers. Canvas today, however, is made of covers, canvas allows for a more solid,
cotton, referred to since the early 20th even covering of your boat, and you can
century as "cotton duck". This material dye or paint it much like an oil painting
has a tighter, more mechanical weave and so that you can give it style and flash.
stretches more, meaning that you can get After all, even when your boat is
a tighter fit around your boat for covered, it should be eye catching. In
greater security against water, dirt, and regards to boat covers, canvas gives you
other external factors. a lot of options and a great sense of
While canvas is not impenetrable, it will contentment with little worry about how
last for years with no risk of leakage. well your boat is protected.






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