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• gandrfab Posts: 21,646 AG

  April 2020 edited April 2020 #2

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Soda Popinski GrovelandPosts: 16,403 AG

  April 2020 #3

  Love the throw pillows.   very snazzy.   Someone having peach bellinis for breakfast?  

  You can't pet a dead dog back to life 

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• Flec Posts: 734 Officer

  April 2020 #4

  I once made a PVC TTop for my old Aquasport 200. I mounted it to my grab rail with two VHF antenna mounts and had a custom weblon top made,worked great. But really, an umbrella like the ones above are great. But consider this,,early and late in the day when the sun is low, shade tops don't shade to well unless your umbrella tilts at a joint which some do.

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• Soda Popinski GrovelandPosts: 16,403 AG

  April 2020 #5

  Flec said:

  I once made a PVC TTop for my old Aquasport 200. I mounted it to my grab rail with two VHF antenna mounts and had a custom weblon top made,worked great. But really, an umbrella like the ones above are great. But consider this,,early and late in the day when the sun is low, shade tops don't shade to well unless your umbrella tilts at a joint which some do.

  I agree with you.   I won't be able to adjust that like an umbrella.   But I'll really only need it when the sun is high in the sky i would think.   Early morning/late afternoon shouldn't be an issue, well i hope it isn't. 

  You can't pet a dead dog back to life 

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• spangler daBurgPosts: 2,781 Captain

  April 2020 edited April 2020 #6

  When I work on my boat, and sometimes on the water, I use a tarp and bungees.  You have to move it around throughout the day, and the degree to which you move it changes throughout the year.  I currently have a bimini and I think it makes it a little easier bc sometimes it's more like hanging a curtain than stringing a roof.  Sometimes a combination (ie angled) works best.  A combination of bungees and quickties (and diff size tarps even) helps by giving you more configuration options.  You can also buy tarp clips that will attach to anywhere on a tarp, not just at the rings.  All this stows away easily as well.
  

  I'm finally getting a t top put on my boat.  I'm planning to have a few canvasas (prob 3, a couple dif size rectangle and one triangle) with multiple rings along the edges made. And add a few spots for removable vertical rods (prob 1 in the bow and 2 at the stern).  But a couple tarps and a variety of bungees (and especially dowels like you mentioned) will work just fine on a t top as well. 
  

  Obviously, none of this is for running

  Adequate shade has become a necessity for me, being at a pretty high risk for skin can.  The next boat will have a very nice custom canvas job, for chillin.
  

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• Gotsea Posts: 861 Officer

  April 2020 #7

  I graded two 15 feet long 1/2" aluminum pipes put an eye SS end on each one mounted tow quick release  on top of the half tower, made a piece on canvas with two log pockets to thread on the pipes once fixt to the hard top, thread the canvas and put a piece of pvc to finish the frame, I also have addition pieces of shades to attach on the sides of the pipes to block sun coming low, it works great the whole back of the boat is shaded.
  
  
  

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