Shrink-wrap heat guns range from a few hundred bucks to more than $1,000. While it’s true with heat tools that you get what you pay for, DIY boaters probably don’t need—or even want—some of the ...

One day in 1993 Michael Enos was on the freeway near Reno when he saw a tractor-trailer rumble by full of boats, each neatly wrapped in shiny white plastic. "It was all nice and tight and pretty," he ...