Re: catalina27-talk: Re: Couple of BIMINI Questions

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:30:42 -0700

Tom. I would have had the same problem you are having, so I raised my boom by about eight inches before having a bimini installed this summer. I still have several inches to spare at the top of the mainsail track. The bimini stands a tad over six feet from the cockpit deck, so I have plenty of headroom and no contact between bimini and boom.

Jeff Sheler
s/v Windsome
C27TR #6594     
Hampton, VA

At 11:36 AM 9/13/2006, you wrote:

As long as we're on the subject, I have a bimini mounted about like the one below, but it's too high by sveral inches. Boom hits it so I can't use it sailing closer than a reach. How do you shorten the things. Can I just cut a couple inches off the aluminum tube?

Tom Monroe
6219 Different Drummer





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Well, here is another picture.  Ninth Daughter (no he didn't own 8 other boats named daughter...he and his wife had 8 daughters!) has a split backstay and end boom travelor.  I haven't sailed on ninth daughter with the bimini open so as far as going forward I do not know the ease/difficulty of that.  Also, Bob Deurer's web site has information about modifications he made to Esacape's bimini: Cockpit-1
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BTW: I think 9th daughter has a nice concept for dealing with the ob and there is a small solar panel on the top of the pole which is attached to the aft railing.  A nicely equipped boat.

Dave



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