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Went to a concert by boat last night. A local artist plays on a dock in a cove and all of the boats anchor or raft up. On the way there is a low railroad trestle bridge. Well the biminis had to be taken down and put in the trailer position to fit under. Then once under we had to reassemble everything for the show. Then do the same procedure for the ride home. That was work!!! Ha! We've had this boat in the water since May and that's the first time we have taken it down. Well we won't be going under any low bridges anytime soon. We are ready for the double Bimini electric option......
 
Went to a concert by boat last night. A local artist plays on a dock in a cove and all of the boats anchor or raft up. On the way there is a low railroad trestle bridge. Well the biminis had to be taken down and put in the trailer position to fit under. Then once under we had to reassemble everything for the show. Then do the same procedure for the ride home. That was work!!! Ha! We've had this boat in the water since May and that's the first time we have taken it down. Well we won't be going under any low bridges anytime soon. We are ready for the double Bimini electric option......
Being from west coast where we have rivers and reservoirs to boat on, our bridges are all designed for shipping river traffic and our rivers change height considerably from winter rains to summer dry spells. Most bridges have ability to open and occasionally a tall mast sailboat might need clearance, but all other pleasure boaters have plenty of clearance and tug boats pushing barges or ships are the only times they open. It seems so strange that they would build bridges that are so low you have to lower the biminis on a pontoon. Is this on lakes that don't change water level height? So regular flying bridge type pleasure boats cannot go some places because of these super low bridges? What about fire boats and coast guard and rescue/tow responders? So different from our experience here.
 
Being from west coast where we have rivers and reservoirs to boat on, our bridges are all designed for shipping river traffic and our rivers change height considerably from winter rains to summer dry spells. Most bridges have ability to open and occasionally a tall mast sailboat might need clearance, but all other pleasure boaters have plenty of clearance and tug boats pushing barges or ships are the only times they open. It seems so strange that they would build bridges that are so low you have to lower the biminis on a pontoon. Is this on lakes that don't change water level height? So regular flying bridge type pleasure boats cannot go some places because of these super low bridges? What about fire boats and coast guard and rescue/tow responders? So different from our experience here.
This is a large manmade lake. There are probably 3 bridges that we can't get under. The town's and area were here long before they dammed it up and flooded the river to make this lake. We don't have large ships and barges running up and down the lake so we don't need bridges to open up to tall masted ships or sailboats. We no longer go to the local Bennington dealer to fuel up because it's under that same railroad bridge. ...
 
I’ve heard of some bass tournament guys intentionally flooding their bilge to gain those few inches and pumping out once on the other side. That’s pretty creative and/or stupid.
 
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