Make Your Own Sunfish / Lateen Rig Sailboat Cover

With our detailed, video instructions you can create a sleek, fitted cover for your lateen rig sailboat. Our cover features a zippered boot to allow the mast to come through the cover and a pocket at the transom to accommodate the spars, which are typically laid on the deck when stored. The cover also has shock cord around the perimeter to keep it close to the boat and belly straps that can be secured underneath the boat for a tight and secure fit.

We made our cover from Sunbrella^® Marine Grade Fabric, which we like for its weather resistance and colorfastness. Since Sunbrella has a tendency to abrade over time, we added chafe protection patches in high chafe areas of the cover. For a more inherently abrasion resistant cover, you could use a vinyl like Stamoid™ or Weblon Regatta^®. Other good cover cloth options include, SeaMark^®, Sur Last^®, Marine Finished Cotton Duck and Top Gun^®.

In the video, we pattern our cover on a Sunfish sailboat, but the techniques are the same for covering any lateen rig sailboat like the Snark, Minifish, Phantom, Sailfish, and Glen L. Buckboard, to name a few.