Tow with OEM cover?

AJWest · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:52 pm

Haven't done it yet but just wondering if the OEM cover is a "Towable" cover or will it or those rachet buckles leave scratches or worse

gibbs114 · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:19 pm

I towed mine 7 hours with the cover with no problems.

Dave.Mishchenko · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:25 pm

Mine has been towed a fair bit and I can't see any marks from it.

AJWest · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:34 pm

Cool, thanks for the replies. Towing mine 3 hours to Earmark Marine for some LED transom lights. There's anywhere from 50%-70% of rain the rest of the week so I wanted to tow with the cover

DatTexasBoy · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:47 pm

Anyone know the cost of a new OEM cover?

AJWest · **Posted:** Mon Mar 05, 2012 6:59 pm

Probably 5 bills I'd say

nastya20 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:45 pm

Crank the drill out and install them yourself AJ! Just kidding...you having David do some stereo work too?

Johnnydefacto · **Joined:** Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:47 pm **Posts:** 634

cover, whatever the cost, is totally worth it. It fits so snug and perfectly. The axis has a unique shape, not conventional at all, and the tower can be awkward to try to fit "custom" boat covers around. My last boat had 2 different "custom covers", they were okay, but man, I love my axis cover.

Towing with it should be fine. I towed with it to havasu on the maiden voyage, 5 hours. I noticed that it left a little bit of black something under the rub rail. still not surre what it was, it came off with my finger nail. So on the way home I towed without the cover... took a rock to my windshield and had to replace it. I cant help but think if I had my cover on the way home, the windshield may not have cracked.

I will be towing with it on for now on.

firefighter_854 · **Joined:** Thu May 19, 2011 6:44 pm **Posts:** 53

I always tow with mine on. 1- to keep everything in the boat, not that the seats would fly out very easy but I have seen it happen. 2- keeps the bugs off the boat. All I have to scrub is the tower and I hate that enough. I would be sick to my stomach if I had to do the whole front of the boat that way! 3- the more sun I can keep off of it the longer the interior will hold up. Think about it I tow mine 1.5 hours to the lake for the day and back home. That's 3 hours in the sun when I am not using it. And the sun is beating down on the interior. Granted most the time it's after dark but that's when the bug thing comes in.

elc · **Posted:** Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:09 am

I have towed my last two boats 30k-40k miles over the last 5 or six years and never towed with a cover. The only issue I had was tire tread came up and hit my last boat. The cover would not have helped. I have always been scared that thing is going to fly off and wrap around another car (not so much with the axis cover).

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