Fw: [Rhodes22-list] Biminis on tracks

[lcrowther]

Ed,

I only know that my track width is, or was. standard GB issue.  the reason I
put the pictures in this list is because Bill Berner asked me about the
cars.  Since there seems to be a general interest or curiosity about movable
Bimini mounts I am posting the correspondence with Bill before I took the
pictures.  Hope you don't mind, Bill!

Lloyd
s/v Uhuru II

----- Original Message -----
From: "lcrowther" <lcrowther at cox.net>
To: <bberner at optonline.net>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Biminis on tracks


> Bill,
>
> The car is made of a black plastic block with a groove on the bottom and
> lips at the bottom of the groove sides which will fit under the track.
(You
> have to take off one stop, located at the ends of each the track, to fit
> each block onto its track.)  On the top of the block, mounted by two
screws,
> is the same fitting that looks as if it could be positioned on the deck as
a
> fixed-position Bimini mount.  This fitting, which is screwed to the top of
> the block, has a slot on top that takes the fitting tongue located at the
> bottom of the Bimini tubing.  The slot on the top of the fitting that is
> screwed on the top of the block has a screw hole through both sides; a
screw
> goes through one hole of this car fitting, through the hole in the tongue
of
> the Bimini pipe fitting, and through the hole in the other side car
fitting.
> The whole black plastic car unit is apparently made especially for Stan,
he
> had a whole bin full of them in April of 2002.
>
> Sorry this explanation is so convoluted, hope you can figure it out.
>
> Lloyd
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Berner" <bberner at optonline.net>
> To: "'lcrowther'" <lcrowther at cox.net>
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:37 AM
> Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] Biminis on tracks
>
>
> Lloyd -
>
> What does the lead car look like?
>
> I can't see how the end fitting on the bimini would mount to any of the
> cars/fittings that are in the WM catalog.
>
> Thanks.
>
> BB
>
> Bill Berner
> 191 South Broadway
> Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
>
> v 914 478 2896
> f 914 478 3856
> e BBerner at optonline.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lcrowther [mailto:lcrowther at cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:09 AM
> To: bberner at optonline.net; The Rhodes 22 mail list
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Biminis on tracks
>
> Bill,
>
> Last spring I went down to GB and bought a used Bimini from Stan.  I also
> bought two (Bimini Mounting?) cars that I mounted on the Genoa lead car
> tracks in front of the Genoa leads.  My track goes well back of my winches
> and is very long but when I looked at the boats Stan had in for
repair,etc.
> the track layouts came in several configurations.  When my Bimini is
folded
> down I push the Bimini cars forward so the folded down Bimini crosses the
> cabin roof far enough forward so it does not interfere with the access
> below.  I seldom use my Bimini under sail; under power, in my slip, or at
> anchor it is great.
>
> Lloyd
> s/v Uhuru II
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bill Berner" <bberner at optonline.net>
> To: <Rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:20 PM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Biminis on tracks
>
>
> Last year we got a bimini from GB.
>
>
>
> I'm interested in mounting it on a track, in the hopes that I'll be able
to
> slide it forward some in order to make it easier to sit up on the gunnels
> when the boat is heeled over.  As set now it is really in the way, and
also
> a bit in the way of the genoa sheets if the fairleads are set close to the
> winches.
>
>
>
> So my question is - anybody else got theirs on tracks.  Do you use the
genoa
> lead car track, and if so with what hardware.  Do you use a separate
bimini
> track outboard or inboard of the genoa track?
>
>
>
> As Rumsfeld said, there are things we know, things we know we don't know,
> and things we don't know that we don't know.  Applies to me with this
> question.  All help appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> BB
>
>
>
> Bill Berner
>
> 191 South Broadway
>
> Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
>
>
>
> v 914 478 2896
>
> f 914 478 3856
>
> e BBerner at optonline.net
>
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