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W28 with a bimini?

  • December 02, 2012 6:43 AM
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    Message # 1150562
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    Does anyone have any photos of a W28 with a bimini?  I've been trying to figure out how to do one and am coming up empty.  With the boom so low and extending through so much of the cockpit, I can't see how anything would work that one didn't have to crouch under (even 5'3" me).  Hoping that someone has figured it out and I'm just not thinking far enough outside the box.

    -Steve
  • December 02, 2012 1:50 PM
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    Reply # 1150739 on 1150562
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    Steve,

    I have 329 Pics of 28's from across the web.  Looked at all of them and not one had a bimini.  If I find one, (I'm always adding to the collection), I'll email it to you.  Least I can do for all the help you've given me.

    David
  • December 03, 2012 2:17 PM
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    Reply # 1151603 on 1150562
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    W28 with a bimini? Yes, of course!
    Namaste has come with one. I have since renewed the canvas but the principle remains the same. A big U shaped tube attached both ends to boom gallows and supported by cross-members also on boom gallows. Very simple, relatively quick to dismantle when needed. Usually stays up though. Protects from rain and sun. When not sailing the gap between dodger and bimini (required there for main sheets to travel) is is velcroed with a piece on canvas providing an uninterrupted cover. Here are some photos of Namaste where bimini is visible ==> click.
    And yes, you are right I cannot stand right up with my 6'2", but why would I? I usually lie down in the cockpit ;-). The bimini doubles as a table when motoring in calm waters: I put a chopping board on top of it, stand up behind boom gallows, tiller between my legs and my coffee on the "table". A bimini is a must on a W28, especially in the tropics.

    Cheers,
    Voytek
  • December 04, 2012 7:16 AM
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    Reply # 1152078 on 1150562
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    Thanks for searching through all those photos, David.  And thank you, Voytek for the photos of Namaste's bimini.  I could probably make something like that work.  I already have a piece of canvas bolted to the cross-piece on the gallows. I keep it rolled up most of the time but I can unroll it and tie it off to the gallows legs to provide protection from the wind when I'm in a marina with the wind coming from astern or when I happen to be backed in to a marina and want a little privacy.  It's long enough to reach the back edge of the dodger so all I need to do is get the hoop and fittings.  Seems pretty obvious now.

    -Steve
  • December 23, 2012 6:17 PM
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    Reply # 1166042 on 1150562
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    Steve,

    Found this pic of a hardtop...

    Listing 100566730
    Listing 100566730

    That's outside the box...

    David F.
  • December 24, 2012 7:06 AM
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    Reply # 1166293 on 1150562
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    Thanks David.  That is definitely outside the box.  Looks like he has a bridge-deck traveller and still manages to make it work.  Interesting.

    -Steve