When I bought my 205, the previous owner had installed a naugahyde snap on cover with the snaps at the top of the windshield, plus a bow cover. I grew to love the bow cover for the reason Brett mentions. We ride in the off season a lot & it's a necessity. But the cover over the main cabin sucked for a number of reasons. First of all the little sliding snap fittings on the windshield scratched the frame up & never stayed in place. Several of the holes drilled for the snaps in the fiberglass cracked over time & they regularly got hung up on something, board shorts, shirts, whatever. And it sucked trying to put a naugahyde cover on the boat in cooler weather as it shrinks up. At the time I swore I'd never buy another boat with a snap cover again. And I've walked away from deals as soon as I saw the snaps. All that said, if there was a descent snap on cover, it would be one made of sunbrella, and where the snaps are hidden as well as possible. I've seen them installed under the bottom edge of the rub rail. And along the bottom of the windshield. Having owned both snap covers & drawstring covers, I'd must rather have a Rankin/Evolution style cover any day of the week. I haven't figured out a clean way to have a bow cover made for my Vride yet. Hoping the bow cover for the Malibu Corvette makes it to everyday boats sometime.
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