Originally Posted by
Mischief IV
Saw several pontoon companies offering automated poles to raise and lower the bimini...because taking two minutes to lower by hand is too complicated I reckon.
The convenience of having a power lift on the tower is not so much the fact that you no longer have to deal with the complication of doing it by hand, in fact the power option adds an additional step or two. The benefits are that one person can handle the tower and the boat going into and out of a covered lift or you can lower it only so much as is needed to clear a low bridge like we have to with the Cobalt where we boat. There are two low bridges that getting under allow us access to some really clean lakes with sandy bottoms without big boat traffic due to those low bridges. For us right now it is pretty much an "all or nothing" approach unless you have a person or two willing and able to hold it in an intermediate position. Those are the benefits for us in this particular application, not laziness driving it though I am sure that most people get it either because they are lazy or the salesman sells them on the idea when they will never need it.
'86 Comp TS6M - Reborn 2016
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