Haven't seen one in person. Are those 4 straps off the corners adjustable?

Yes. All four are adjustable, and the umbrella pole is also adjustable.

Thst may have just made the final decision for me. The only time I see a bimini being useful running is if I'm on a lake all day and the kids are getting burnt. But thats what the berth is for.

Red, Ill be coming down to Mobile March 11-19 with my Formula. Be nice to connect with you and have you show me the good and not so good areas of Mobile Bay and dauphin island. I plan on running mine out into the Gulf and everywhere else.

Patrick

Sounds good Patrick. I don't do much in the bay I spend most of my time up mobile and tensaw river delta. But I venture out a little to the causeway. I'd like to make a dauphin island run as well that would be fun.

[QUOTE=phughes69;4511665]Red, Ill be coming down to Mobile March 11

Patrick, please post your comments on the trip. I am seariously thinking of a couple weeks trip to the area later next year. Any ideas of places you plan to go with boat?
Sounds like a good time.

Bad news is I'm not off tomorrow like work schedule said I was. Good news is they gave us all $100 walmart gift cards and let us off on monday the 26th.

I instantly blew $77 of that thing on walmart.com. 4- 3/8"x15' dock lines, 4 3/8"x5' lines for bumpers, and last 2 4" bilge blowers.

This boat will get 4 fosgate 8s and 4 6.5s. Boils down to needing a true 800rms amp to feed them. Talking with some of my old stereo shop buddies they have had very good luck with the budget builds using a brand known as "rockville" one of them bench tested this particular amp that claims to be 400 rms per chanel at 4 ohm (2 channel) he said it actually backed up the claim and put about 407 watts out at 4 ohm. That should tickle the little speakers just right. Also it can run 1 ohm per channel in stereo mode claiming closer to 750 rms per channel.
Best part $114! Low power consumption. And better yet a 1 year warranty and WATER RESISTANT! it should be here next week to see how it does.

Interested to see how your audio project works out.

I went simple with mine... I have a Pioneer bluetooth HU connected to a Alpine PDX-5M, 4 - Alpine 7-inch marine coaxials in the cockpit, two hidden Polk 10's in the gunwale storage, and a pair of Pioneer 6.5's (connected to the HU) in the cabin. The birth-sheet for my Alpine PDX shows 125W per channel on the stereo side (rated at 75W RMS) and 410W on the sub channel (rated at 300W RMS). It sounds great; very punchy with good lows. And the really good thing is that it doesn't draw the power that a conventional amp does so we're able to listen to it for longer periods. I might add more to it over the next season. We'll see.

Good luck with your build!

this one will be quite simple as well. no head unit just rca/3.5mm being fed from phone. i found a head unit is more of a pain than its worth when all we listen to is pandora and spotify anyway. i will keep the 1994 double din that is in the berth and let it power 2 6.5s and 2 6x9s in the berth. however the cockpit will have the 8 mid range speakers. i have a few fosgate marine 12s but dont really want to take up that much room in the boat with them. i will have the gunwales partially occupied by 4 bumpers, tons of ropes, a tube, tow rope, 2 anchors, other various objects that my woman cant live without... i really would like to put a sub somewhere but i will see how just mids do for now. having a simple 4 speaker set up in the berth on a head unit will be good for when we are sleeping or dodging rain. the cockpit will be for driving and when we are hanging out with friends.