We live on a lake but our boat house has only one slip. Before I pay to build another one, which i don't think i can afford right now anyway, does anyone have any quick ideas for covering my 16 foot tracker. We recently got a used pontoon boat that is covered. Lats night we had  huge rain--i mean big big rain (central georgia) so much so that when I woke up and checked oon the tracker, it was half-filled with water. Bilged it out and its fine. But now I was wondering if anyone knows of a decent, economical, and failry easy way to keep most of the rain out. A tarp would be worthless because the water would pool in anyway. Perhaps I could construct a cover out of plywood to go over the boat during storms? I don't know.

Not sure about a cover but maybe get an auto float switch for the bilge pump.  that way you would at least not have to worry about going out to turn it on and off.

Auto float switch? Can't say I've heard of that but sounds promising. Is it simply somethign that turns the bilge on and off? Would be great. Thanks