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Funny you should mention that! We were just discussing the possibilities of doing just that while up in Jurian on the weekend! Now I'm quite enthused as I know it must be a deffinate possibility!! ;-)

Hi Jeff... Is that salt water you are blasting through...???

Well we did get alot of salty crap on us on that particular weekend with a few fesh water crossings after and some good ol' hi pressure everywhere spraying when we got home. We did three mouth crossings that weekend one of which the tide was starting to come in and may have been bringing salt water in, but for the most part they were fresh water. I reckon I would have got more salt under the car from some of the wet sand we had to drive on, flickin' it everywhere! Dodging waves etc.

Go for it and let us know if it works Jeff. Geoff said the bloke did some modifications on the casing and had a handle to roll it up. Looked quite neat. We will have to have a move on and make ours as time is slipping away before we head for the Gulf through to Darwin in July. Jen

Yeah that's how I was thinking of doing it. My first idea was to get some PVC water pipe (like you use for storing tent poles etc) cutting a rectangle slit all the way down one side and puting a pole inside with a tarp attached to it. Then somehow attaching a handle to one end of the pole. That way you could just pull the tarp out and then wind it back in again. But then I thought of the window blind as I have some old ones at home and thought it's already done for me that way!