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Default Folding T-Top - Pretty neat

John H wrote:
On Fri, 22 May 2009 08:19:23 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Fri, 22 May 2009 06:38:56 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 22:22:29 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:44:14 -0400, jim7856 wrote:

John H wrote:
On Thu, 21 May 2009 18:38:33 -0400, Wizard of Woodstock
wrote:

On Thu, 21 May 2009 17:20:40 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

Some of the guys on the CS forum have these.
Let's them put their boat in the garage or under the carport.

http://www.fishmaster.com/?gclid=CNL...FRKLxwodqk78lw
I gotta wonder how stable that this - there is virtually no cross
bracing for side-to-side stability.
Speaking of side-to-side stability, did I ever mention the swaying
action I get with my bimini? Oh, I did? Well...never mind.
It was determined that you should have purchased a surry top like
Harry's. His was the finest kind available and didn't sway like yours.
Yup. We remember.
Was that the bimini that was hand built by the finest Union craftsmen
using only expensive German hand tools and the highest grade materials
known to man including the top material that was certified by NASA and
was used to craft space suits installed by a crew of highly trained
engineers using only high strength through fittings so that on the
next fire boat welcome after some amazing adventure on Chesapeake Bay
so that nobody would get wet while standing under it?
Nowhere in here is there any mention of the stiffness of that famous
2" tubing.

The way I heard it it wasn't two inch marine aluminum tubing - I heard
it was 1 1/2" titanium/nickel alloy from only the finest, cleanest and
well managed Union manned mines in the world and extruded in Germany
using the best Swedish machinery to a tolerance of .00000000001 in
wall thickness.


Oh, I thought it was a reference to the stiffness of the 2" tubing
that is getting all the use in the second honeymoon in Vero Beach.
--

John H


His landlord wouldn't touch that with a can of Lysol.