Secondly, when we got brave enough to venture for a shower this morning, we noticed that an aft corner of the bimini cover over the flybridge had been pulled loose by the wind. Braving the stlll 55mph gusts (it was not very nice out there!) we found that the zip that holds the cover onto the spreader bars had been broken and didn't want to close again. How the wind opened it in the first place we don't know as we had tried several times to pry it open so we could remove the cover to clean it...
As the cover was the original and very very sad (it also had a lovely green mould growth on the top of it from all the winter rain we have enjoyed) we reckoned that it was time to remove it and get a new one. Doing that in the wind was exciting too. Of course, it involved getting a small bath in green messy water that ran off the top when we pulled the cover back in place. Just after a nice shower too. Lovely. Of course, the wind then dried the green water that was splashed onto the flybridge area so we had to wash off the resulting crusty green goo. Double lovely.
So, we now have a topless boat. Before:
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After, the minimalist "stainless steel hoops" look:
The marina folk will be upset when we get a new one though - they look down on us from their elevated office position when we lock in / out and could laugh at the state of the old bimini. Luckily few other boats"looked down" on us as it was pretty disgusting.
The first non scheduled maintenance spend of 2014. Probably not the last but let us keep hoping!
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