All Wrapped Up
One of the decisions we had to make was whether to shrink wrap the boat for transport. After reading many horror stories about boats being covered in exhaust soot and slime upon arrival at the final destination, we decided to have the boat wrapped.
People who had the exhaust soot problem recounted spending lots of money and all season trying to clean their boat. Given that the cost to wrap our 49 foot Grand Banks was only $1,800, we decided that it would be good insurance.
OceanFlyer in her new suit of shrink wrap film.
The decks get their own protection.
This is a footnote to this blog after delivery. There was no soot or slime on our shrink wrapped boat when we picked it up. So we could have done without.
Further, it cost us about as much to get all the tape slime off the boat as it did to shrink wrap it in the first place. Tape is used only around the edges to secure the shrink wrap film, but it's still a lot of tape. After being on the boat for over a month, much of it in the tropical sun and heat, the adhesive separated from the tape as we removed it. The resulting adhesive residue took lots of time to remove. Further, some of our varnish was damaged when the tape was removed, even though we were very careful as we removed the tape. Would I do it again? Probably not.