A while back I mentioned that I would write about the new bimini that I made over the summer. As I stand (no chairs) in the dingy laundry room at the Lighthouse Marina in Hope Town I will write about the project. We knew we needed a new bimini to replace the leaky old one. We considered making a rigid bimini out of expanded PVC. Ron and Dee from Ursa Minor had made one and said it worked really well. They talked us through to process of using a heat gun to mold the expanded PVC to fit the frame and then bolting it onto the frame. After looking into it for a few weeks we decided we just didn’t know enough to try it, so that meant I would have to make a new bimini out of fabric. The old bimini was too stretched out to use as a pattern so we made a new pattern out of Dura Skrim from Sailrite. We were very careful to follow the instructions and make it as accurate as possible. I decided to use Stamoid vinyl fabric from Sailrite. It is a very nice, but expensive, fabric made by the Ferrari ...