Extending stock h280 Bimini

[Ken13559]

I'm helping a friend to find an easy solution to extending his bikinis from just above helms pedestal to near companionway. His current bimini covers the stern rail seat up to about the helms. The mainsheet anchor is on the helms pedestal. So the natural suggestions to extending the bimini would be to shift the mainsheet anchoring to coachroof and place it on a traveler to get it out of the way. Is there a solution without moving the mainsheet anchor point? I was thinking of having a gap/slot between existing and new extended bimini for the mainsheet to fit through. And use overlapping flaps between the two biminis edges to "close" the gap. There will be some wearing/chafing of mainsheets and gap flap material but I suppose it can be managed with regular maintenance. What do you think?

 

[Tata duende]

I have a 280 and extended my bimini but have the cabin top traveler; a buddy with a 290 and the pedestal mount found the the booms on the pedestal mount boats are lighter material than the factory fitted cabin top boats. At any rate just a heads-up if if you consider changing the sheeting.

 

[Ken13559]

TD, thanks for heads up. Didn't realize lighter material used for cabin top on pedestal mounted mainsheet. That is a very important piece of information.

 

[Tata duende]

Ken, It is not lighter material for the cabin top, but for the boom. What they found was that the boom on the 290 that was factory pedestal sheeting was a lighter/different boom than was used on the factory cabin top sheeting version.

 

[Ken13559]

Oh that. Thanks for the correction. I'll have to take a look again.