do you guys use boat covers? if you do what type would you recommend, trying to keep the boat out of the sun so much, it dont get any relief in its location.

I ended up buying one from Academy for around 50 bucks. It's a Marine Rader brand that fits 18'-19' for my 1860 with center console. It hangs over the side a bit but keeps the sun off.

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I do the blue tarp thing. Have to change it out about every year and a half cause it drys out and rips at the stress points. I made some bows that fit inside the hull, out of pvc, and they help keep the water off. Problem with the tarp is the trouble of tying it off, so I took some 1 1/4 pvc, cut about a 3/4 gap out of it, cut a 1 inch to fit inside of it and sandwich the tarp between the two wherever I want to tie the tarp off at. The inner pipe has a hole for a bungee. You can buy some plastic chit like that but it was a helluva lot cheaper to make myself. To hell with it all, I got a 20 x 24 carport on order to park the boats under now. Can't wait, fuke a cover. Rabeaux's in Lafayette has the best prices around. For a 20 x 24 with the side all the way down it was a little over 1600 installed. Before that the cheapest I could find was over 3000.

I bought one from Cabelas a couple years ago.. Works well and I can trailer it too..

JP I got one from academy prob like BayouStateHunter. Mine is silver works good but I would get one a little longer than the boat to cover the motor aswell. I have a seperate cover for my motor but you need a cover for your motor with a GT unless you like water in the housing.