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says. " What he thought was best was
a two-piece bow and cockpit cover,
mainly because of the weight. After
about 75 boats, people were coming
over to me and telling me about a lot of
the problems they were having. With
two-piece covers, the water pours right
in between the two covers. If you do
one where you connect the cockpit
cover and the bow cover together, when
you go down the highway, the cockpit
cover will pull the bow cover up and it
will start to damage the boat. So when I
started my business, I decided I would
not make a two-piece cover. I operate
differently from the other canvas shops.
I'm probably one of the only shops in
the whole United States that just does
that one cover. I don't do tie-down
covers. I don't do two-piece. I don't
do any of the enclosures that the other
companies do. I just make that one
type of cover, but it seems to be the
one that keeps us going. "
Erichsen prides himself on custom
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work and measures everything by
hand, several times. He says he often
gets requests from people who have
seen his work. " I get calls all across
the United States and Canada. I've
had them from Egypt and the U.K.
They want my covers. They see a boat
cover that I've done on my website
and they say, 'Send me that cover, or
send me that pattern.' But here's the
problem: I found that when I first did
the brand-new boats, I would measure
the windshields. I'd measure the width
and length. The design will vary by two
or three inches from older models in
width, length, height of the windshield
position-all sorts of things. There
was no way you could make a pattern
cover and send it out to somebody and
have it fit. That's the whole reason. So
everything has to be custom. "
Tim Goral is senior editor of Specialty Fabrics Review.
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