This is project 7, from dgarnier, From rag top to Hard top

When I got my Trojan international 10 meter express it had a canvas top that needed a lot of help. I found a show out in Jersey Atlantic Tower that had made to hard tops for Trojan. The size really didn't sink in until the lowboy dropped them off. Another Captain and I both have 10 meters and ordered then together to get a break of shipping. He had a car trailer to move his, I had my pick up...this thing is 13'x 10' and crated it seems twice the size. So we put in the back of the pickup and used ever tie down I had and said on the back road to get it up to the marina. While mounting it was not too bad, 6 deck plates and a few knuckle type joints. The trick was working on a boat that is floating in the water so it's never really still, you are always moving, we managed to only drop 2 or 3 wrenches over. The last challenge was positioning it on the mounts, while its just 6061 tube and a fiberglass skin it's so big its hard to move. Once we got it on it really dialed the boat up into a fishing machine. From start to finish it only took us 5 hours to move it up to the marina and get it installed on the boat.

before with the canvas top
http://addictioncharters.net/pics/bfs.JPG

now the fishing machinne

http://addictioncharters.net/images/boat3.JPG

http://addictioncharters.net/pics/430.JPG

Now in this pick you can see the stainless tube with the rod holders mounted to it - that is the next project to rework that in aluminum and weld on the rod holders
http://addictioncharters.net/pics/8-4-pm-bow.JPG