When the boating season comes to a close, and the weather takes a turn for the cooler, winterizing your boat is an essential part of taking care of it for the season. Between fuel stabilizing, ...

Registered boat owners in the U.S. dispose of 92 million pounds of used shrink wrap each year, the majority of which ends up in landfills. Clean Ocean Access, a non-profit, launched a recycling ...

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Established under the Minnesota Boat Wrap Stewardship Law (Minn. Stat. § 115A.1416), the program requires boat wrap producers to take full responsibility for the collection, recycling, and and proper ...

A few years ago, I announced I was trying a new way of wrapping our boat for winter and I would let you know how it came out. The first year was a disaster; ditto for the second. The third was a ...

Climbing over an icy swim platform and through a snow-covered zipper door makes wintertime work aboard inconvenient. With basic carpentry, that same shrinkable plastic makes a storage shelter large ...

If you recently purchased a boat, you are likely enjoying it as the summer weather begins to warm. Even though you're having a blast on the water right now, you should start taking steps to store your ...

ANNAPOLIS — Dustin Hoover and Christopher Grimm are pretty wrapped up in their work. As owners of Annapolis-based Atlantic Shrink Wrapping Inc., they spend their days shrink-wrapping everything from ...

A while back -- well, maybe it was a couple of years ago – I said that I was trying a couple of new wrinkles in wrapping a boat. Now is the time to fess up. One idea, which I had seen done on a couple ...