Mosquito Screens for Boats

This Blogsite is a vehicle I am using to post photographs and information about products I am manufacturing on my travels around the world.

My company, Boat-Tex Manufacturing was formed in Canada a few years ago when I still lived on land in Vancouver, British Columbia. For many years prior to that (about 25 years actually) I owned a different company manufacturing fine clothing for women. The skills I developed designing a fashionable line of clothes have also become valuable in designing useful items for boats.

So for the past 5 years I have produced most things made of textiles to do with boats, hence the name Boat-Tex.

Since my husband Tony and I left Vancouver in September 2008 on our way around the world we have not stopped for very long anywhere, but long enough for me to do a few sail repairs, make canvas products, re-upholster interiors etc.

As we have mostly been travelling in summer climate we have been fighting off an enemy common to most countries in the summer months - MOSQUITOS. I must have special blood which mosquitos love more than any other because they bite me mercilessly.

The mosquito screens which I have designed for our boat's portholes (windows) are not my first attempt. These are in fact the 3rd attempt to keep my enemy from drinking my blood, but these are really good.

I know that this time I've cracked it. Once made to fit the porthole this screen can be popped in or out when needed. With some portholes I can make them sit in the outside of the opening and they can be left in place when the porthole is closed.

The materials used are all marine grade, water, salt, sun resistant and with care should last a long time. They can be easily washed just by running them under the tap, which will remove any dust sitting in them, and then just patted dry.

They won't rust, and no holes or glues or velcro need to be attached to your portholes to fit them. They just pop in place.

Maybe I'll call them POP-IN PEST PREVENTERS. No, that's too corny, I'll just call them Mosquito Screens for Boats. I make them on-board the boat they are for, as they must fit exactly, and they cost about 70 Euros for a set of 4. Of course you can have more if you wish.

We are currently spending time in Malta. Having arrived here in September last year we've decided to use Malta as our base in the Meditteranean while we work. And we are here for the summer, so I've got all of my screens installed.k

Hatch and Companionway screens are also available; these do require snaps to hold them in place, but with stainless steel snaps corrosion is not a problem and when the screens are rolled back out of the way the screw in part of the snap which remains is not ugly.