Big 'uns

[Peppy]

Holy boat tops Batman! We're on a roll! First this-



and then this-

(we finished this one just on time! They're getting married under it tomorrow)

Now this-






*wow effect*


Makes me dream of days gone by, when boaters fished...

[fragged8]

some sweet work m8, it's so good being
able to work under cover. I went a week last week
not being able to pattern because of the wind.

[Mike8560]

That last one  a santeago I think I like how you had the rear top high enough
comming of the  bridge floor hight as done on a larger boat would t work there did you come off the bridge frame ? Maybe the handrail  I've never done a santeago rear top.  What size was it ?
I did a 30 somthing Bimini and enclosure with a bridge cover also last summer    

[Peppy]

This was a 27. The rear top comes off the tension bars of the bridge section. The middle bar in the rear part is into a 'T' fitting.  This is the second one of these I've done. Getting to like them. Big pattern. I couldn't imagine making it outside. Though, if it was in the water it wouldn't be so far off the ground. 

While I was making it I was thinking of you whole pattern guys. This pattern took about six hours. Would it take you guys 12? Would you do it in stages?

[Mike8560]

I generaly take a day on a big boat 33 bridge and aft cabin . If it's  only 4  
Hours I take rhe rest of the day off anyway inhate to start a new project in the afternonn.
I'll
go fishing instead.  
just finnished the 37 silverton today and have to start a mainship
bridge Bimini and enclosure  I was thinking of tring your half pattern also. The rear wall is the only unsemetrical
section with a
four panels
with a Door  ect    On a side like this  a panel each side behind seating that would stay on a steading mast with radar in the center with a table on it in the center with a panel on each side of the mast thenright side being used as a door after comming up stairs and then entering from the rear tvroughy the door  would tou half pattern the rear or a hole pattern here. I don't remeber if the left and right is evenly spaced.

[Peppy]

I try to do 1/2 always. Mostly I don't if it's the boat thats not symmetrical. If the boat is symmetrical and it's the tarp thats not, I make half. You just have to get a little creative with the lines you draw. We lable everything 'this side' (pattern side) and other side (not pattern side) You may want to get three colours of markers red for this side, blue for other side, And black for both sides. Might help you keep it strqight in your head.

If it is the boat thats not symetrical you might not build the panel where it gets goofy, but build everthing else install it then pattern the goofy bit. Doing it this way I would pattern the 'most symmetrical' side. If it's a light or a hatch or a BBQ thats making it goofy I would make it on the goofy side and mark it TSO (this side only)

[JuneC]

Nice work, Peppy.  On a job that size (the last one), I'd have patterned and made the tops before even starting the windows.  Too much canvas there to do in one fell swoop - at least for me.  If I did it all at once, I'd have wasted a bunch of time "tweaking" the canvas afterwards because the integrity of the pattern would probably be so-so.

June

[Peppy]

Interesting June. I would do that to; build the bimini (inside on the floor), then pattern the curtains to the zipper on the boat (zipper trick), if I had to do it outside. I really try to avoid that though as it seems like it takes way longer than building it in one shot. And it seems like something gets screwed up somewhere down the line. Like I put the zipper starts and stops in a bad spot or something. And it adds at least 2 more trips to the boat.

What is it about your pattern that loses integrity? Falls apart like? Stretches? You pattern with plastic right?

[kodydog]

Jeez! When I saw the topic "Big 'uns" I was expecting something else. That things huge (I know, that's what she said). Nice job Peppy.

[Peppy]

Nice work Mike! I made a top a bit ago on a boat looked a lot like that but it was a Trojan I think? Looked a lot like that though. I remember working around that radar nub trying to beat a thunder storm.

[Mike8560]

Thanks pep I deleted my post by accident  editing a I phone typo

http://i782.photobucket.com/albums/yy102/Mike8560/photo2-40.jpg

finnished it was a 37 silverton.  Didn't pattern it   Used the old stuff as one and made some note on it to fix things I didn't like