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britinusa
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Initially Posted - 06/23/2012 :  17:52:25  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We seem to get a fair amount of rain while at anchor. Any suggestions for minimising rain ingress with the pop top up?
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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 06/23/2012 :  20:37:26  Show Profile
Boom tent?
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 06/23/2012 :  22:20:35  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Do you guys have the pop top cover that fits over a stainless hoop? We have a Taylormade umbrella like thing that we've used, but I don't really like it.
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Response Posted - 06/24/2012 :  03:52:51  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
We have the original Pop Top Cover that came with the boat.

When it rains, we get ingress at the bottom of the windows and at the bottom of the companionway flap.

We have a sunbrella boom tent: stretches from the front edge of the Bimini to about a foot aft of the deck organizers. It narrows to about 30" wide at the front so that I can get up on the cabin top from the cockpit when it's in place.

Paul
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Response Posted - 06/24/2012 :  16:22:16  Show Profile
Hey Paul ,

I made this for a vacation we took ..

but is real low to go forward , a quick diconect would help .
It did work great as a rain tent !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSvieTdjruo
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britinusa
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Response Posted - 06/24/2012 :  16:50:43  Show Profile  Visit britinusa's Homepage
Sean, that's a bigger tent than ours. Do you think you would leave it up if the wind climbed up the scale?

Ours clips to the bimini on both side and has a machined split around the mast topping lift with two more clips securing it to the bimini.

It's not as wide as yours forwards, and does not use poles.

That's half the problem.

Concern about your tent staying put in moderate winds.

Experience?

Paul
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SEAN
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Response Posted - 06/24/2012 :  18:01:37  Show Profile
ya it moves around in the wind .. Im hoping to have it pull tight some how ..
its still a work in progress .

its just a templet ill make something from sunbrella when im done .
I wanted something big that would cover the open hatch plus the cockpit ..

it didnt puddle up , that was nice !
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Response Posted - 06/26/2012 :  18:10:37  Show Profile
Use some Sch 80 PVC pipe and then you can pull it down tight by bending it slightly over the boom. Should help keep the movement down to a minimum.

Another thought would be to use some fiberglass tent poles and secure them to the stanchions on each side. Kind of a Connestoga Wagon look.
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Response Posted - 07/26/2012 :  13:56:56  Show Profile
tent poles sound good , because you can break them down for storage ..hmmm :)
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redviking
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Response Posted - 08/02/2012 :  06:56:15  Show Profile
I bought one of these... Uses tent poles and folds down to nothing...

sten
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zeil
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Response Posted - 08/02/2012 :  10:40:13  Show Profile

Wow... very nice and useful... if you don't mind where is it available?
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 08/02/2012 :  11:17:14  Show Profile  Visit delliottg's Homepage
Looks like it's only sold in Scandinavia. I Googled for it, and found Sten's post from about six years ago when he still had his C-25 and telling us that he was the only person in the US that had one. That might still be the case.

This is all I could find: [url="http://www.freebag.no/first/english/english/order.html"]Freebag Overhead[/url], but no way to order it (or any of their other gear) online.
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Response Posted - 08/02/2012 :  13:54:39  Show Profile
Nice I like it !!
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gpc
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Response Posted - 08/03/2012 :  06:12:45  Show Profile
As per an email I received from them yesterday

Hello Greg.
We send it from Norway.

Price is: . 260 USD (ex. vat)
Shipment approx. 50 USD depends where you live.

We do not have a web credit card solution for payment, so it need to be payed up front.

Best regards
Lars Sorbo
Freebag AS
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OLarryR
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Response Posted - 08/03/2012 :  09:08:08  Show Profile  Visit OLarryR's Homepage
Greg,

Sounds great to me...Now you have a reason to go to Norway so you can pay up front !!

Several years ago, I wanted to buy a new bike helmet that was made in Canada. We were going to the Canadian Rockies that summer and so I found a bike store in Calgary on the route out of there to the Rockies. They ordered the helmet and had it for me when we arrived. (Back then, purchases over $75, the Canadian Govt gave back the tax cost. At the airport, they had a booth to fill out the forms and we received back the taxes on the helmet, other purchases and the hotel taxes.)
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