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BuilderFL
10-28-2007, 08:16 PM
Well, I’m kind of embarrassed about this issue because I should have known better. Anyway when installing a hardtop, keep in mind that your t-top may not have been designed to handle the pendulum effect or momentum the extra weight of a hard top will bring, specially if it does not have proper cross bracing. Check out the clear-cut breaks to both sides of my t-top at the point of connection. I’m very lucky the whole thing didn’t end up in the water.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/BuilderFL/IMG_0218.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/BuilderFL/IMG_0217.jpg

http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278/BuilderFL/IMG_0216.jpg
msbhammer
10-28-2007, 08:20 PM
YiKes !!, thats a good last minute save there. :o
macojoe
10-29-2007, 01:29 AM
Wow not much holding there!!
Blue_Runner
10-29-2007, 07:15 PM
I like the gaff protector....

Man you really did dodge a bullet there! Are you now adding supports, if so how?
BuilderFL
10-29-2007, 08:05 PM
I'm not sure if I am staying with the hardtop or I'm going back to the canvas. If I keep the hardtop I would weld a support, any type as long as it is a cross bracing between the two front legs.
msbhammer
10-29-2007, 08:34 PM
Ok, you talked me into it. I'll glady take your hardtop off your hands for ya. ;D
Blue_Runner
11-05-2007, 05:16 PM
Sell me that gaff protector 8)
BuilderFL
11-05-2007, 08:40 PM
You guys like my balls, well if you don't mind that they are lightly used, I can get you some!

Penn & Wilson, Tennis Balls that is. ;D
msbhammer
11-06-2007, 11:07 AM
So what you decide, did you repair and add in more brace support, or decide to go with a bim top. ???
We want Pics. >:( >:( >:( >:( :P ;D
BuilderFL
11-06-2007, 06:54 PM
Hammer,

Have not decided but I'm leaning towards keeping my hardtop which not only cost me $750, but I like very much. I'm still working on my console and looking at pictures of other CCs for ideas as to how best brace my T-top. Also, thinking of moving my console forward by about 10".
msbhammer
11-06-2007, 08:15 PM
Sounds good brother, keep fresh batteries in the camera when you make teh changes. ;)
Stillrunning
11-12-2007, 06:53 PM
That could have been ugly if it snaped off. I moved my CC foward leaving about a foot or so before the step up in the front of the boat which gave me more fishing room in the back. That area between the cc and the step up is waisted space so now when people sit on the front CC seat they put their feet up on the step up.