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JRP:

Yes, that's what I meant. Here's what I wrote:

"I have left the bimini all the way up for the trip home, but I never thought of leaving it unfurled and up."

Here's what I should have written:

"I have left the bimini all the way up for the trip home (only from my local boat club because I don't exceed the speed in my car that my boat does on the water), but I never thought of leaving it unfurled (should have said "furled", is that a word?) and up."

The picture you linked looks a lot like my bimini, a whole lot. Some of the lengths are different and the bottom hardware, too, but otherwise, that's it, and that's what we're both talking about despite my failure to put it in words.

BTW, on the new Whalers they have this really cool attachment mounted on the boat that uses no pins or screws ... it is a shaft with a semicircle ground out of it ... you rotate the shaft to the "open" position and the "ball" that is the end of the bimini pole will pop out of the attachment. Or, put the ball into the attachment and rotate the shaft ... now there's no semicircular escape route for the ball. It's really nifty and once you teach everybody how it works, it works really well, is really strong, and really easy.

Here's a pic of the hardware:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jUNTcXHO7ZM...O7ZMyqQFk1

They come in "port" and "starboard" models. The easy way to use them is push the "pin" with one hand and turn the d-ring with the other 180 degrees. Both are shown in the "open" position, ready to be loaded with the ball tip of the bimini poles. You slide it in, then rotate the pin 180 degrees and they can't come out.