Self-Booting Bimini Debuts At IBEX

Self-Booting Bimini?

In the category of “Now I've seen everything,” the Outer Armor Self-Booting Power Bimini by Commercial Sewing not only earned a lot of attention at the show but it also took home an NMMA Innovation Award. The patent-pending power Bimini stores the canvas top as it retracts automatically into an integrated boot box. As much as we love power Bimini tops, you still have to deal with putting the boot sleeve on or off when using it. But that's not the case with this game-changing release.

As the Bimini retracts into radar position, the elastic bands integrated along the top fold the canvas in an accordion fashion into the boot box. A key feature of the self-booting box is the integrated fingers that push the canvas into the box before the sides close together.

The complete structure is designed to look like a traditional Bimini and engineered to achieve the high speeds that pontoons are reaching on the water today. It is rated at 65 mph fully deployed, in radar position, or fully stowed while on the water. (www.commercialsewing.com)