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thought i posted my installation experience with mounting the stern rails. . . ? They are worth every penny, add an extra measure of bling to the boat, cockpit room, and safety. The aft stanctions were a problam being from two different manufactures and not at the same angle.

I'd do it again.

Michael

Guys -

I've added a section of 1" SS tubing in between the stern rail seats to further close in the cockpit and it functions and looks excellent. Makes the assembly rigid and also allows me to tie in the mast crutch which will also firm that up as well.

I'll send images, once I can get in to that @#$! photo poster thing again. I have such difficulty with them - seems I can never log in!

Trying to mount a bimini today. $320 Sunbrella Blue from Boater's World. Don't think it will be a classy as the $???? from Dowsar. How much was that puppy?

Michael

Michael,

I will be looking for those photos. I am thinking of going the same route!

Rich

Any advice on the overseas stern rails that the factory has?

Rich,

What photoshare place do you use? I can't get on Photobucket, or Kodak easyshare.

Frustrating.

If need be, i'll just email some images to you.

Just made some rail covers from $2 pipe insulation foam and some spare blue sunbrella fabric. Cool

Michael

What's happening when you try Photobucket?
Works for me. I think they're interface is kludgy, but gets the job done.

Flickr.com, owned by Yahoo, might be even better. It's used by all the amateur photogs to share their work, like a gigantic gallery. They have a free service and a "pro" signup for $25 per year.

A very nice Flickr feature - they enable scribing little boxes around various portions of your image and then typing a description into the box. Think of selecting individuals in a portrait and adding their names. The captions reveal when you mouse-over the picture, then disappear when cursor is removed.

Captioning could be useful in describing elements or features of a modification. One thing I dislike is that Flickr's default is to set all pix as public, a minor issue. And, as with all services, the effort of typing stuff into their servers is lost if they can't make it. That happened to a bunch of pix that I stowed at an early photo site - name forgotten, captioning efforts lost.

Frank,

Trying Flickr.com now. Thanks for the idea.

mtc,
I would appreciate you emailing me the photos. I am getting these seats for my wife as a 10 year wedding aniversary gift, so I would love to see them!

Rich

mtc,

I'd love to see the pictures too... You could post them as a mod. This shouldn't be an abuse of that, since after all, they are a mod...

Actually, your connecting the rails together is a mod of a mod...

Sure Rich!!! It sounds like you are getting yourself a gift for your 10 year anniversary

Rick,

Do you and Molly have plans to head out this laborday weekend? We will be at Channel Island Harbor Saturday and plan on spending Sat and Sunday night out at Santa Cruz. Let's have a raft-up.

Rich

Rich + DLT:

I'm forwarding those images and a parts list to your email, Rich. DLT, send me your address, please, and I'll forward to you as well.

Am unable to attach images to the mod page. Listed my bimini mod, but the pics didn't stick. Emailed Heath for help. Anyone have an idea for a remedy to get the images to list with the mod copy in the meantime?

Followed the instructions, but when I hit submit, the next page said "page not available" you know, that white page on explorer that you get when the web site you're looking for isn't there. . .

Michael

Here are the GREAT photos that came from mtc.

Wow!

How did you add the track to the lip above the rub rail?

It crackes me up to see a guy that does all that beautiful custom work on his boat and has a tarp on his roof. Now that's a sailor!