Well, as in most sailing and boat ownership issues, one question or problem leads to another ...
Raising the boom was going to be my first solution. The gooseneck fitting is completely frozen ... ain't going nowhere short of drilling out the screws and retapping. Unless, of course, someone has a bright idea on that subject.
Tom
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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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Re: catalina27-talk: Re: Couple of BIMINI Questions
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
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
