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Posted: 04-02-2024 04:21 pm

Joined:	11-25-2021
Location:	St Petersburg, Florida USA
Posts:	236
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You could peruse a few boatyards or boat salvage yard if you have one for gently used bows. I had difficulty finding someone to bend tubing at a reasonable price when redoing my cockpot and canvas and was ready to buy a tubing bender and try my hand at it and came across the perfect sized set of bows at the local salvage yard. You just need to be sure the bows are sound and not structurally compromised.
Buying the bender and getting the tubing would have been about half the cost of hiring a shop.
Sailrite also offers kits that are good quality. And maybe your canvas guy has an account there already and might share his discount if you buy him dinner:-)

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Don Keskula A.K.A. Vintage Human
S/V Migaloo
1996 IP40 #70

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