Mirage 24 sailboat Bimini
Biminis, preventing sun stroke on the water since. ... times forgotten. This week we have taken one step more towards cruising boat and one step away from racing boat. The recent heatwave has us thinking it's a long way out a sunny channel to get into the lake and it is not too shady out on Lake Michigan. So, there are a few ways to go about this Bimini business. You can go the custom route get the parts, bend the tubing or have someone do this for you. Can you say cha-ching, because the local canvas guy can see you coming. Yeah, that's not the way I went. After much measuring and figuring, I decided to visit Amazon.com and find a prefab kit and modify from there. I went with a 3 rib system that is 8ft wide by 6ft long. 8 by 8 would cover the entire cockpit but the mainsheet would interfere so there will be a 2ft area uncovered at the front of the cockpit perhaps someday I'll install a dodger to cover it as well. Once I wrestled around and figured out w