[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: bimini-awning

[Steve]

Bruce
If an awning is all your wanting; I would just use a
6x8 or 8x10 foot tarp.  Slide it over the boom and
streght it out and tie it off.  4 ropes on the cornors
can be strethed forward to the upper shrounds and aft
stern rail.  Folds up easy and cost is mimimum. 
However, the good this about a Bimini is that you can
sail with it up.  I used a tarp several years before I
purchased my bimini.  I have seem many types of awning
but most folks say having to rig the main halyard to
hold it up is a PINA.  Also, you have to watch out for
the poles that lay over the boom that if left there
for extended period of time will rub holes in you
mainsail and/or cover.
Steve


--- CHIMNEY18@aol.com wrote:
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> ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 
> From: CHIMNEY18@aol.com
> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:48:00 EST
> Subject: bimini-awning
> To: rhodes22-list@rhides22..org
> 
> I have read the recent thread on biminis with
> interest.  I have been 
> pondering over the last year getting or making an
> awning.  My principal 
> interest is in putting it up when using the cockpit
> for sleeping and, on 
> occasion, when at anchor for long periods of time on
> a sunny day.  I haven't 
> seriously considered a bimini because I haven't any
> need for it while sailing 
> and, ideally, would like more headroom than a bimini
> affords.  I have had 
> some difficulty, however, in figuring out the best
> way to rig an awning.  I 
> have considered hanging it from a cleat on a partly
> raised mast, with straps 
> or bungee cords running from the sides/corners to
> the stern rail and 
> handholds on the cabin top.  I took all the
> dimensions last summer but never 
> got beyond that.  I also considered the Shadetree
> product but they utilize 
> the stanchions and I don't have lifelines on my
> boat.  Has anyone succesfully 
> rigged an awning they could describe here?
> 
> Bruce Greenwald
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