RainTaker reviews – boats & covers

My rotomolded skiff has always held water in the aft bilge because the scupper isn’t located at the lowest point. After installing a Raintaker, I checked the boat following an afternoon of heavy rain and found zero water accumulation. It’s a simple solution that works exactly as advertised.

I have a Zodiac that had a scupper valve fail and I was met with a surprise when I got to my lake house in Gladwin Michigan. I looked for a while to find something that was fully automatic and I’m glad the raintaker worked as advertised. I don’t have to worry about failed scuppers again. I’m too old to be bailing water on my weekends on the water.

I keep my boat on a lift on Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia and the Raintaker has been fantastic. It keeps my boat completely dry after heavy rain without having to worry about batteries or shore power. I installed it in minutes and it just works. Honestly one of the best upgrades I’ve made to my boat.

My Novurania 360 DL (RIB) took on a bit more water than I would have liked during our last windy rainstorm (Fort Lauderdale). The factory scupper valve fitted to my RIB is questionable at best and I didn’t want to chance having a boat full of water when I’m diving off the coast. I keep the raintaker on my boat when I’m away and when I’m diving off the coast. Pretty cool to see it turn on and pump when it rains. Portable too.

My 24′ Sea Ray sits in a storage lot on the Golden Coast (California) and the cockpit area fills up with water after every rainstorm. I’ve had the boat cover pump for 2 months now and it eliminates all of the the water from collecting during storms. California has been getting rain almost every day and the pump keeps up just fine. Happy with my pump!

For YEARS I fought with my boat cover support poles on my 25′ Sea Ray. I would set the plastic support poles up perfectly straight and put my 600 Denier cover on top, strap it down and store the boat for a week. The next weekend I showed up to get the boat and the support poles had fallen over and left me with a Central Florida swimming pool. I wanted to skip the cheap support pole setup and came across Raintaker. I covered my boat like normal (MINUS the poles) and set the pump on top of the cover. We had a couple of days of heavy Florida rain (hot and humid!) drench us before I got back to my boat, only to find the cover almost bone dry!! I couldn’t believe it.. Sure enough.. my neighbor said he was “watching the cover pump itself” during the storm. The pump kept the heavy water off during a storm, pumped out all of the water and charged itself backup.

I’ve been manually bailing out my 15’ Boston Whaler for years! We keep it at our lake house, and it would collect a TON of water. As you know, Whalers don’t sink but I don’t know how I went without a Raintaker PRO for all these years. No more bailing. Thanks!