just been to check my rib and noticed a little bit where the top layer of material (the one with the colour) has worn off due to my cover chaffing a little. it is very small (5p size) but want to prevent it getting worse when i fix it.
the cover is an excellent fit but due to the tube design and way they inflate it causes a slight crease and that is a high point which has chaffed.
it is a full cover i have and it is at the bow where it is went a little.
would there be any drawbacks to using huge towels/dust sheets on the tube all round to prevent this completely?
where the boat is can get quite windy so need to try something.
I don't see a problem with that, but as it's only a small area affected, you could simply stick a small piece of duct tape over the tube at that point (you can tell I own a Searider )
I had something similar with an ebay blue cover on my rib when overwintered in the garden. I ended buying some cheapo rubber carpet underlay and laying two lengths of it down the tubes rubber side down. The theory was that being mainly rubber it wouldn't absorb moisture and being fairly heavy it wouldn't shift about too much. I proved to be half right on that, but it did help protect the tubes a little.
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