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The boat I am buying will not fit into my garage. I have a double garage with two 96" doors at the bottom of a 3-story house. I don't want to get into the expense of converting to a single door by tearing out the support post and installing a super strong beam. Does anyone have experience with "portable" shelters? I looked at Shelterlogic on Overtons. How do they handle the wind and rain? I am in Nor Cal with fairly mild winters.....30" of rainfall and sometimes 50mph winds, but not often. Summer temps 90-110 degrees. How difficult is it to put up one of these? What type of anchoring do they need? I don't want to leave my beautiful Nautique totally out in the elements.
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RE: Outdoor Portable/Semi-Permanent Boat Shelter for Nautiqu
I have a shelter that I've used for the last few years. Its mainly for winter use, but I leave it up all year because it gets covered by overhanging tree branches and doesn't seem to deteriorate because of it.
we had a cave in 2 winter's ago so you have to keep an eye on it to make sure the snow isn't building up, but it works great. I bought it at home depot and its a metal frame system with a tarp.
It cost me $800, but I don't have a garage. I would suggest if you can retrofit your garage to work do it, because these shelters won't last a lifetime. -
RE: Outdoor Portable/Semi-Permanent Boat Shelter for Nautiqu
I picked up a Shelterlogic 12x26 for a temporary garage for the Nautique. PepBoys is offering them for $199 right now with a $20 rebate. The side kit is $99. I am happy with the purchase. With the side kit I don't have to cover the boat when it gets puts away. Mounted lights and a fan to the top of the canopy so I can work on the boat and get it dryed out after use.
They will not stand up to a snow load. If we have snow predicted for NC I set my alarm to check in the middle of the night and brush it off as needed. I had one of these types of shelters collapse on a car once due to snow load. Not fun. Lesson learned
Winds? Not 100% sure yet. I have it anchored with cable and mobile home 30in anchors. (Get the kit from Lowes). It seems like it would be very sturdy and has held up no problem in some strong thunderstorms this year. I would think 50mph winds would be no problem. If we were going to get a leftover hurricane I would probably take the tarps off the frame.
Of course it isn't real pretty and you have to make sure of neighbors and homeowners associations.
My wife and I put it up in a few hours including the side kits.Comment
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RE: Outdoor Portable/Semi-Permanent Boat Shelter for Nautiqu
We built this as a temp/perm boat storage. In the desert we have pretty extreme temps and wind gusts so the canvas, sunbrella, plastic, cloth type shelter would never survive more than one season. We were looking for low maintenance low cost alternative. Its basically a galvanized pipe skeleton that we skinned with coated steel siding. The siding was the most expensive part, but under $4000 for 7 garages when we bought the materials. Each large garage, 5 in middle, are 11X26 the end spots are only 20 deep. The galvy poles were salvaged from a recently closed warehouse after hours, so that part was free. Also needed a couple hundred self tapping screws, some silicone for the overlapped siding and very little other hardware. This houses 5 boats and 2 sandrails so yours would be much smaller and less expensive. Ours took a little over two weekends to build, 1st weekend built skeleton, next weekend we skinned it. Doors were added a couple months later. It has held up well, 6-7 years and going strong. We recently added elec. outlets for lights batt. chargers, tools...Comment
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Re: RE: Outdoor Portable/Semi-Permanent Boat Shelter for Nau
San Dimas rules!!!! seen Bill or Ted recently?Originally posted by darrel409
don't tink you guys have to worry about snow there...Comment
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