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"Rick & Linda Bernard" wrote:

Any comments or suggestions on replacing a bimini-dodger with a fiberglass
hardtop? I am in the initial planning stages and looking for input.

Bob wants to do this too. I hope I've headed him off.

I suggested that it be one that would collapse down to make a cockpit
cover when we take off the excess canvas pre-hurricane or pre-haul by
the yard. There would be some engineering involved I guess.

People that have done this on our boats have put up that hard tubing
frame with a canvas top - the frame is stationary rather than
collapsing like ours does, and the canvas laces on. That seems like
the worst of both worlds to me.

I like to have a dodger than I can take out to let air flow through
the boat, and pull down in case the air is cold or has lots of big
particles of water in it.

http://www.thetwocaptains.com/engine_room/volume5.htm shows one that
was made in Trinidad.

grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html