Boat Covers

[Hal]

I need some suggestions on repairing a canvas boat cover. During the night a tree limb, loaded with ice, fell and went through my cover just beside the front seat. Of course that is a high stress place when the cover is installed on the boat so this hole, (actually 2 holes about 6 inches each), will only get worse. The cover is only 3 yrs old and otherwise in good condition, emoBang

 

[Guest]

Find a patch kit somewhere, do the patching from inside. Duct tape won't hold it for very long.

 

[groomer1a]

Not sure how well this would work but fabric stores sell iron on patches for holes in cloths. Some I have seen are fairly heavy. I had a light weight cover on my boat for a while and had used one of these on it. Seemed to hold well. Might be worth checking.

 

[railman]

BEHIND TACO BELL ON HIGHWAY 58 IS A SHOP THAT REPAIRS CANVAS COVERS.
CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE PLACE.THEY ARE ON THE RIGHT GOING TO THE
POST OFFICE.

 

[Richard]

I used Elmer's waterproof wood glue to repair the seams when the thread failed on my boat cover and it has held for 4 or 5 years. Gorilla glue may even be better. You can get some material and glue it in place. Put some old fashion wax paper on it and weight it down with a board and a cinder block until it's dry.