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my spanish is about good enough to get fed and watered  :-)

Dos cervezas muy frio! por favor...

June

And what more does one need ?
;D

translation pls Grebo  :-)

something like if all else fails fix the curve in the tube ??

or poco mas curva,  

little more curve in the tube ?

Yes, more or less  ;D.   I never said I was Spanish  ???  :-*

I get this sometimes as well, usually with the wider frames 2.5 / 3m plus.
I get the feeling that it's just the expanse & the pole is bowing inwards a tad. Like it needs a centre strut.  Or a centre pull out strap ?
If it's on a yacht, sometimes the owners have been forcing it down to pass under the boom, not bothering to lift the boom with the topping lift.  Hence putting a nice wobbly bend into the leading pole.  >:(

 :D ;D

I was thinking about that big girl you posted, Grebo.  Doesn't that seem like an awfully big boat for a sloop rig?  I should think a split rig, like a ketch would make for a more seaskindly boat.  Most of the big boats I see are split rigs. 

Yes I would agree, it makes a whole lot of problems with that height.

Cor just found it...
Think I might give this one a miss  :o

What a coincidence! Just got the June/July Upholstery Journal today, and that very car is mentioned in an article about the three categories of convertible top replacement: Least expensive/time consuming, more difficult/time consuming, and most difficult. The eclipse falls into the more time consuming category. There are some pictures of the disassembly, and they promise more details on their website.

Cool.  Is that the one you can get on line access to ?

Good point I hadn't thought of the speed of the thing. mike

She's a biggie for sure, and a beauty!

The only 45m I've ever worked on was Helena C, originally the Malcolm Miller and sister ship to the Sir Winston Churchill.

Here's a very short vid I took of her during a refit on Southampton Water back in 2004

Note the templated hatch hood.

No contest, Now thats a real boat  ;)

Hey boys & girls, I don't do cars BUT.
My neighbour has a Mitsubishi eclipse rag top (this years)  with two 6" slashes on one side of the roof, one of which just go's through the second layer, inner roof ?
He has been quoted €4000, I guess that's a whole new roof ?
Is it feasible to go a decent patch job ?  & whats it take to get it off the frame ?
If you need piccys, it's about 100yards from me, so no problem there.  ;D

Yeh sure is, the owner is an arquitect he had it built for him. Big boat for one person  ::)

For those of you who like em BIG  :P
Onyx of Berlin.  45metres  :o Goodness knows how long that mast is. ???
The OH has electronics to fix & I got some cushions to do next year   ;D

I will get a better piccy, this one is a snap from my phone.

There's a thing, I am doing the exact same thing on a moody 35  :P

I have mine in a rack & just pull off what I want, but the darn stuff tends to either drop off the coil & get knitted up, run away with its self or the cardboard middles come out  ???  I am thinking of just stacking them up & taking out whichever I want to use each time.  Any bright ideas  ;D

Nice cover there Rich, I haven't done one inside the frame like that yet  ??? Looks good.  :D

I used some local sunblind material (reacril), like a cheap sunbrella, made it two years ago & it's still going strong, got blown off once  :-[ & now has a strap under neath.  ;D