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All good things must come to an end. My season ends today as my boat will be pulled and placed on the hard for the winter.

The marina mechanic will winterize my engines and A/C. Then I will make an appointment to get her shrinkwrapped.

Now I will begin counting down the days to launch. I will launch as early in April as I can. I want to get the hull buffed and polished prior to launch if I can. Hope that the weather will be good enough in April for the job to get done then back into the water for 2018.

Hi just wondering how much it costs to winterize and shrink wrap your boat. Just curious as this is not done in Australia.

Golfgippsland wrote:Source of the post Hi just wondering how much it costs to winterize and shrink wrap your boat. Just curious as this is not done in Australia.

I will be glad to give you an answer once the winterizing process is completed.

There she sits. Once the engines are winterized I will make an appointment for the shrinkwrap.

Golfgippsland wrote:Source of the post Hi just wondering how much it costs to winterize and shrink wrap your boat. Just curious as this is not done in Australia.

If I was just to walk away from my boat at the end of the season and have the marina do everything, I would get an invoice for around $CDN2500

Cheers..... Where is my
Fraser

In my neck of the woods (Nassau County, NY), the price for shrink wrapping at a marina starts around $17/ft. and goes up from there.
I just received a $925.00 bill for my 36 Mariner ($25.00/ft) and I was gonna complain. However, after comparing the job to other boats at both this and other marinas, I decided that it was worth the extra cost.
The yard brought the shrink-wrap material all the way down to the waterline. Usually the material ends just under the toe rail, leaving the sides of the hull exposed. They had to use a bunch of material to cover from the radar arch down to the pin stripes above the paint...stern to bow. (the radar dome and pole mount was wrapped separately). This approach certainly increases the cost.
In my mind, the boat is very well protected leaving just the running gear exposed to the elements.
But still....... $925.00!!!!!

I don't shrink wrap. When I had express cruisers I just used the cock pit cover. With our 355, I just add extra support to the bridge canvas in case we get any significant snow.

denpooch wrote:Source of the post In my neck of the woods (Nassau County, NY), the price for shrink wrapping at a marina starts around $17/ft. and goes up from there.
I just received a $925.00 bill for my 36 Mariner ($25.00/ft) and I was gonna complain. However, after comparing the job to other boats at both this and other marinas, I decided that it was worth the extra cost.
The yard brought the shrink-wrap material all the way down to the waterline. Usually the material ends just under the toe rail, leaving the sides of the hull exposed. They had to use a bunch of material to cover from the radar arch down to the pin stripes above the paint...stern to bow. (the radar dome and pole mount was wrapped separately). This approach certainly increases the cost.
In my mind, the boat is very well protected leaving just the running gear exposed to the elements.
But still....... $925.00!!!!!

Definitely getting up there, sounds like a nice job though........curious, how many vents did they install in yours???.........they keep delaying putting vents in mine ( paid about the same as you after exchange), been wrapped for over a month and this is when we hit the dew point more often.

Some operators wait to go around and install all the vents once they finish shrink wrapping all the boats. Could never understand that logic as it means visiting every boat twice but what ever works. Just keep on top of them and make sure they actually do it. They probably won't put more than 4 vents in a Mariner. The more the better but as long as there is some air movement you should be okay. The wrapping isn't air tight. Also, if they don't practice this themselves, you should get some white foam noodles, cut them into 2 foot lengths and stick 3 or 4 on each side vertically between the hull and the lower string. This helps prevent the wrap from chaffing the gel and also provides more venting. They're called foam vents and are actually available from shrink wrap suppliers but those are long square pieces. If they've tightened things up properly, the noodles will stay there all winter long.

Believe me ,I will be thrilled if they put 4 vents in as I have already done the foam spacer thing made vents for over the fuel vents and installed the door.I agree about the visits to the boat, guy is already on ladder doing the heat shrinking, easy put in vents then...a few minutes.....