Fora Marine RM800 Winter Cover

With its mast already in position, your sailboat is ideally prepared for a custom-fitted winter cover.

Make winter storage easier with our custom-made cover.

The custom cover we make for your boat has no frame: instead, we use the boom to create a tent-like structure that covers the entire vessel. This reusable cover offers long-term savings and can last from eight to 15 years, depending on how you care for it. The seams should be thoroughly inspected and reinforced after about eight years, and the cover should never be left in place during storms.

It is essential to fit the cover correctly, as strong winds can tear a poorly fitted cover. The straps and lines must be tensioned appropriately.

The winter cover is ventilated

For our covers, we use polyester fabric coated with PVC on both sides. It offers several advantages, including strength, light weight, low stretch, and resistance to mould and abrasion—ideal qualities for protecting your sailboat. However, as this material is not breathable, we incorporate essential vents during manufacture to ensure adequate ventilation beneath the cover throughout the winter months.

Quality with a selection of durable marine-grade materials

To ensure maximum service life, we avoid using stainless steel eyelets, preferring sturdy webbing loops or quick-release buckles. Metal eyelets are known to cause abrasion and should never come into direct contact with the surface being protected. Our seams are sewn with UV-resistant sail thread that resists breaking, ensuring excellent durability.

Expert craftsmanship for a perfectly fitted cover

In most cases, your boat cover comes in two sections joined by a zipper, usually between the mast and the cockpit companionway. Reinforcements are sewn at all chafe points. The cover passes over the stanchions and hangs slightly over the hull. It is secured from inside the boat at each stanchion base, usually with a strap threaded through a ladder lock.
We never design fixings that require drilling, as there are plenty of suitable attachment points already on board.
The mast base is enclosed in a sleeve that is strapped at the top to limit water ingress.

Every aspect of the design and construction is carefully considered to provide protection that fully meets your needs.

Details:
1.    Passes over the boom, with the sails removed
2.    Passes over the lifelines
3.    Cover secured from the inside with straps and ladder-lock buckles at the intermediate lifeline and stanchion bases
4.    Hangs 5 cm over the hull
5.    Aft skirt covered, secured to the rudder or ballast
6.    Mast-base sleeve
7.    Clearance opening for the shrouds and/or backstay