Bimini Top Question

[stripminer]

I am finally back in the water after a year out due to our second child. In the past I had never installed the bimini top but this year I thought it might be nice with the kids onboard.
The doggone thing is always in the way when it is not raised though. It is either across the cockpit ( NG ) or sitting on the windshield right in my view.
Am I doing something wrong here ? I would think that it should lay across the foredeck, down and out of the way.
Can anyone tell me how they store their bimini on their V20 ? Should I invest in the rigid poles to hold it up and out of the way ? I would really like to have it lay across the foredeck but it gets "stuck" on the windshield.
Thanks in advance

- Tom