Hardtop Bimini

Hi Tarek

Have you contacted Fairline to ask for some advice on what you want to do? I am sure the designers will be able to come up with something for you. The only problem i can see is that Fairline would not want to change their profile of their boats as they are high speed boats. Please keep us up to date it would be interesting to see what it would look like. Good luck with you project I wish I was qualified to help, I would not mind a trip back to Egypt.

I was going to suggest the same -refer to Fairline- but I see Graham's point very well. I also believe that if you get this done in the right and a professional manner that you would have an 'original 78 Squadron' that no one else has.

Tarek, I am going to give you another suggestion but I will PM you.

Tarek,

If memory serves me, the hardtop on the Westport 112' was not originally planned by the factory. One of their customers, a gent who owns a large cement/concrete manufacturing company in Florida, insisted on a hardtop for the boat, so Westport engineers came up a design that would integrate into the existing radar arch. Since then, most Westport buyers have opted for these hardtops.

You may be doing Fairline a favor!

err - your next boat may be a westport ?

I will build it for you.
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Dennis

Thank you. Good to be here.
Dennis

Well Tarek, it seems that you have quite a few options now for your envisioned hardtop. Only thing now is for you to choose an option.

Dear Dennis,

Before seizing an opportunity, it is best to do your homework. At YF, that starts with reading our rules on promotion and not posting your email address... on ANY open forum! Your address has been removed.

In the future, you might consider making a proposal on how you would go about accomplishing this, or what experience you have to facilitate the same. To simply jump into a community, offering nothing except a solicitation... is poor forum etiquette.

Tarek...

There are several 5-axis mills in Florida, two of them belong to friends that have made a number of molds for me. They also happen to be respected as the best in the biz. You'll need to supply CAD drawings that can be interpreted by their software to produce a foam plug. After that, you can source a someone to make a mold and pull a piece for you. A reasonably adept yard in your vicinity should be able to install it. Be sure to run the drawings by one of Fairline's in-house engineers for structural confirmation.

If this is made from 3D-drawings and milled, you can save about half the cost by milling the mould! It will probably break when removing the hard top, but is good for one. Perhaps you need two pieces, one top and one bottom, if you would like to have less maintenance and nice surrounding shapes for spotlights, loudspeakers and such...