Canvas Snap Tools & Boat Canvas Repair
Canvas tops are part of boating, but they can cause a lot of headaches. Boat canvas can shrink, making it hard to snap the snaps. Marine conditions can cause snaps to corrode and become difficult to fasten and unfasten, leading to ripped canvas or broken snaps. Sometimes, despite our best efforts, a snap will give out and need to be replaced. We've been there.
There are some great snap tools on the market that will help you make your boat canvas behave. We've pulled together some of our favorite tools, below:
Recommended Canvas Snap Tools
Snap Tool & Snap Lube
The
Top-Snapper Snap Tool and Top-Snapper Canvas Snap Lube will help you get the most out of your boat cover. The
Top-Snapper is a unique patented snap tool that makes it easy to snap your snaps. The two blades offer different options for grabbing snaps and pulling them into place. The main blade allows you to get ahold of a dome top boat snap and push or pull it into place. The leverage it offers makes it easy, and help protect your canvas as it puts the pressure on the snap, not pulling on the boat canvas. It also allows you to snap hard to reach snaps, for example, those on the outside of the gunnels or windshield that normally require you to be outside the boat. The patented design allows you to grab the snap, reach over the side and snap the snap into place while you are still safely inside the boat. The second blade at the bottom of the tools handle offers great leverage to pull reluctant snaps into place.
The
Top-Snapper Snap Lube is our favorite snap lube. It comes as a solid in an easy twist our applicator. The fact that it is a solid bypasses all the problems with messy liquid snap lube dribbling out to potentially stain your boat cover. With this solid snap lube, you put it where you want it on you boat snaps and it stays there and works. It was originally designed to work with snaps that were corroded by the tough maritime environment of Washington's Puget Sound. Since then it has been used by thousands of boaters around the world.
Minor Snap & Canvas Repair
The
Top-Snapper Canvas Care Kit and
Boat Cover and Bimini Bandage will help you make quick repairs while at the dock or on the water. The Top-Snapper Canvas Care Kit includes a tube of Top-Snapper Snap Lube to help you tame corroded snaps as well as a kit with 10 nickle plated brass boat snaps and a handy pocket sized punch and anvil tool. Everything you need to replace a broken canvas snap wherever you are, and as an added bonus, it is packaged in a pocket or glove compartment sized watertight floating plastic case.
Boat Cover and Bimini Bandage is a special clear polymer "tape" designed to make repairs rips and tears in boat canvas covers or bimini tops. At 3 in. wide by 15 ft. long, this light weight, flexible tape will make unobtrusive mends in ripped boat canvas, even when it is damp. It is a handy product to have on hand for emergency repairs.
Snap repair & Snap Setting Tool
The heavy hitter of the snap tools we offer is the
Snap Setter Snap Tool, designed to make changing snaps a breeze. It is a must if you have many snaps to change. Compare the cost of this handy snap tool with having 1 or 2 snaps changed out at your boat shop and you'll understand why so many boaters are picking up their own Snap Setter Snap Tool.
These snap and canvas tools aren't just for boaters. We've found that campers with pop-up tent trailers, as well as people using canvas and vinyl covers for pick-up beds and storage trailers have also found these items indispensable. We've got the best selection and prices you are likely to find on-line.
