The best ideas are always stolen. Adam has given me food for thought about shedding rain off the rear deck tonneau cover we plan to make. Thanks Adam. Of course he knows more than most of us about narrowboat designs, having been Canal Boat magazine's boat reviewer for a long time. He says some boats support their tonneau covers using a system of curved slats. Of course. Doh! There's me thinking about a tent ridge pole when at home I have a couple of tents that use fibreglass hoops to support the roof. In fact nearly all modern tents do that. Ridge poles went out of fashion a long time ago.
Hoops do require two things to be effective.
1. a firm anchor at their ends and
2. the fabric to be stretched reasonably tightly between the hoops i.e. at right angles to them
We would I suppose need two or three hoops to do the job and I would need to make some sort of brackets to hold their ends firmly, Thinking about our tents, which have quite flimsy but strong fabric, the lightness of the fabric is a help in avoiding puddles forming as it flaps a little bit in the wind.
Val Poore (Hi Val) asks about the fabric we use. Its a finely woven fabric with some sort of waterproof impregnation on one side. Its light but strong and comes in a range of colours.We got ours on Amazon, where there are several suppliers. Just search for waterproof canvas. Here's a screen shot of one of them
In other news: Our " little" grand daughter Grace is 18 years old tomorrow. Where did all that time go?
Here she is at her last years birthday with big brother Jacob
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This is the sort of fitting you need, to put the ends of your slats in. I’m not sure if this is a uk website though. But it gives you the idea.
https://www.trivantage.com/boat-cover-socket-for-bow-slats-1-pair-287838
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