Bait_drifta

Hey guys Looking at getting a new Bimini made up and not sure which material to go with, canvas or this vinyl stuff. Wondering if anyone has had experience with these materials and what the pro’s and con’s of having them on their boat? Cheers.

I’v done all the rust conversion and used a good quality, epoxy paint to cover it all. Also done inside the cross members aswell. In the coming year or two I’m going to get new bolt on cross members for the future. I need to remove the bolts to set the keel rollers up properly.

Steering clear from the acid, I’ll just stick with WD40!

Bugger, they never make things nice and easy! Plus being in oz they charge and arm and a leg for it.

Noelm have thought about Eva foam flooring? It’s easier to clean and bait and stuff doesn’t stick, like it does to carpet.

Looking forward to seeing a few pic when she’s cleaned up.

Thanks for all your suggestions guys! I know the cross member is not in the best shape. I have some what treated the area to get me through a couple more seasons hopefully. I have sprayed them with wd40 and let it soak In . Tried to undo it with sockets but the nut keeps spinning they are to far gone as Noel suggested. I have an Idea of drilling a hole ( pilot hole first) through the nut then again at roughy the same size. Then grabbing a cold chisel to spilt the nut in half. After that hopefully jimmying the bolt out with a screw drive. I could also cut the bolt head flush try bashing it out like Noel said but not keen on whacking it to hard in fear cause more damage. It’s not a user friendly design I think ( the bolt and nut combo). I don’t have blow touch might have to get one , to help.

Nice looking red, Awesome job!

Glad you caught a nice feed! Good report, can’t wait for them water temp to heat up!

Hey guys, so i’m in the process of setting up the trailer to fit my boat properly and redoing the rollers. I can’t get the bolts out that hold the brackets for the keel rollers. Just wondering if any got any tips on cracking these bloody things out. ( I new bolts and nuts to put in.) cheers

Hey Z, I ended up going to see a fabricator and they are going to move the rails for so I fit the Savwich bow sprit In properly and reinforce the anchor well for the drum. It will look much better and give some room when the anchor is retrieved up and not hitting the front of the boat.

Hey guys, it’s drum winch and going on an alloy hull. So the bowsprit for the winch is 78mm wide and the opening is 54mm wide. I thinking of cutting 15mm off each side of the bow rails internally and slotting In the new bowsprit.

Hey fellas, looking at installation a bow sprit for an electric anchor. Only problem is the gap between the bow rails is 50mm. Has anyone Came across this and managed to get one in without cutting and re-welding the bow rails ?

Thanks for help @Fab1 really appreciate it. I said sand, washed and converted it today and apply one coat of epoxy paint. Looks better already! hopefully I can get a couple more seasons out of it. Next week going to spray converter inside the cross members to try on prolong them. also looking into getting them replaced with potentially bolt on ones.

I could get something sorted out, what do you have in mind ?