Now that the weather has improved I decided to start work on the new canopy, this time I have decided to use scaffolding, which will either be welded or bolted to the frame that she sits on so no matter how bad the winds are we will not have a repeat of January.
I bought about 500' of new poles, which arrived on Friday after drawing various options on paper. What was interesting is that despite having a plan on paper when push came to shove I ended up adapting and changing as things didn't quite work out.
In fact after 2 days I have probably assembled it and disassembled it about 4 times. You can see from the pictures that the standards (uprights are at an angle), these will be braced by some vertical standards once the whole structure is complete:
Next week I'll be ordering more scaffolding to I can do the middle and back sections, then once the pitched roof shape is in place I'll then wrap it in heat shrink polythene.
One thing that I am mindful of is that to the right of the boat is a 150 year old tree, that if it comes down in a storm will make a bit of a mess of 2552 so I'll probably go over kill in that side of her just in case.