Ski Covers, an alternative....

[Shifty]

I live on the water and keep my superjet on the ramp or boat lift most of the time. I recently put in a pole spring and dont want it to get sprung so I won't cover it anymore. I was wondering if a motorcylce cover would work well, has anyone tried another method? There is a local company that makes custom covers that are nice, I was thinking about having him stitch one up. It would be like a standard fitted cover but with a finished hole for the pole to stick through and then drop a sleeve over the pole. I guess you could even put velcro around the hole and sew a flange on the sleeve to keep it sealed up.

Let me know if you have any other ideas, as I am not dying to spend $150 on a custom cover at the moment.

 

[Shonuff]

Just put a normal cover on it. If you kill the spring, get another one.

 

[Shifty]

How quick do they lose their spring? I have the Blowsion spring and have heard good and bad reviews on it. I dont have a cover for it at the moment and just figured If I am going to have one made anyway... Why not make it this way. If I had the spring compressed for a weeks time would it get week?

I am fully aware it will look goofy as hell.

 

[Boris]

How about a cheap tent from Wallyworld ?

 

[sflsurfrider]

just use a couch cover

 

[DAG]

i dont run a spring, (so no first hand experience) but from what i know about material properties your not stressing the spring past its modulus of elasticity so it will never weaken from being compressed over time.

 

[stanton]

i dont run a spring, (so no first hand experience) but from what i know about material properties your not stressing the spring past its modulus of elasticity so it will never weaken from being compressed over time.

but you are flexing the spring it will lose some lift.
imo the blowsion sj spring needs to lose some boing. reaching up to grab an erect pole sucks.

 

[Boris]

reaching up to grab an erect pole sucks.

braggart

 

[Shonuff]

braggart

Awesome.:swordfight: