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Ribbit Ribbit

Started by PDQ, November 17, 2011, 02:36:01 pm

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PDQ

Don't see many RIB covers posted on the forums, so here's one I finished yesterday.

Held on with RIB hooks & bungee hidden under a 3.5" reinforced flange for UV protection and neatness. A anti-Peppy RIB whereby the console is off-centre, therefore impossible to half template.  ;D  Just kidding, mate. :)






fragged8

hey Dude.


looks pretty clean with the bungee hidden. I actually like seeing the
lacing, I like the zigzag pattern it makes.
The UV messes it up though.

Rich

PDQ

Quote from: fragged8 on November 17, 2011, 02:39:31 pm
hey Dude.


looks pretty clean with the bungee hidden. I actually like seeing the
lacing, I like the zigzag pattern it makes.
The UV messes it up though.

Rich



Aye, shame that.

Peppy

Very nice! Neat indeed!

Quote from: PDQ on November 17, 2011, 02:36:01 pm
A anti-Peppy RIB whereby the console is off-centre, therefore impossible to half template.


Thats okay, I'm anti-RIB. Anytime I make a cover for them they end up all loose and wrinkly. They start out looking good but each snap I put in makes it look worse. :(
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PDQ

Quote from: Peppy on November 17, 2011, 04:01:00 pm
Very nice! Neat indeed!

Thats okay, I'm anti-RIB. Anytime I make a cover for them they end up all loose and wrinkly. They start out looking good but each snap I put in makes it look worse. :(



Cheers!

Yep, it's right downer when that happens.

R.A.F. CaNvAs

          Ribbit-jibbit
  Ooo yeah nice use of flange, I hope that was weathermax
  Well silly me you wouldn't use anything BUT these days eh !  :-*
   If i ever get down to your neck of the forest You'll have to show me
     how you get them looking so good . Is it a lot of stretching or
      is it just Photoshop !   ::)

JuneC

Wow, that's a beautiful fit, PDQ.  People have no idea how hard it is to cover a beach ball till they've tried it once.  Did you use blue heat shrink?  ;)  You need to stick those photos in the "Green Room" for posterity and safe keeping.  Very nice work, indeed!

June
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Mike8560

Nice job! I've only done  4 and one was mine.  Only one. Was a rib. Mine hung on davit horizontal behind the boat that was a job patterning it in place. Cool boat behind it also are you in the uk?

Speaking of peppy half pattern I did a  pontoon once on a boat lift it had a window on one side.   I half patterned the high window side and installed a suppert pole on thbenon window side. Looked fine.  And saved me  patterning it on a lift.

Hell Bat

Looks great,I'm going to have to do a cover for a hot rod roadster soon with out a top,so looking for ideas