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Shadow The Shadow Top
Provides shade, and disappears into your garage ...

The Shadow is a great value in a welded, stainless frame top for your center console boat, combining the fishability and convenience of a center console mounted top with the ability to lower (or remove) the top in seconds to store the boat in your garage, short dry stack, or under a boat cover.

Storage at home saves you $2,000-$6,000 per year in expensive ($150-$500/month) storage fees, saving you $20,000 to $60,000 over an average 10-year boat ownership!

The Shadow mounts quickly on your center console's windshield grab bars, avoiding those annoying Bimini top frames and straps which hamper fishing. It is available in two universal fit models for boats with vertical or raked (angled) grab bars.

USPTO Patent Pending
The Shadow Top
Installs in minutes

The Shadow (as well as the T-Topless and Montauk-T-Topless) mounts on the windshield grab bars of your center console boat in less than an hour without drilling any holes in the floor of your boat.


Shadow Up/Down on 2000 Sea Pro 180 Lowers in seconds

Pull 2 quick-release pins and rotate forward, below the windshield grab bar height in 30 seconds or less. Or remove the 2 front pivots and unplug the light wiring to take the top off for fly-fishing or a ride in the sun!

Raises just as easily

Shadow Fits In Garage
Fits in your garage

Shadow lowers below windshield height (below the gunwales on many) to fit in your garage, a shorter dry stack, under bridges, or under your boat cover - even helping hold the boat cover up to avoid sagging and collection of rain water.


Very stable at speed (65+mph!)

See it run on YouTube


Shadow with Rod in Console Rod Holders
Continue using your center console rod holders...

In most cases, the Shadow provides enough clearance for you to continue to use the factory rod holders on the side of your console.


No Bimini!
No annoying bimini top frame or straps!

No more ugly, bimini top or straps in your way, or flapping in the breeze.


Shadow Stabilizer Bar, from rear
Stabilizer Bar

(included)

Adds rigidity and can be mounted on the port or starboard side.


Type 316 Stainless Tee Solid construction
Type 304 polished stainless tubing

To ensure strength, the frame is formed from a single, 20 foot piece of highly polished, 0.065 inch thick wall AISI type 304L stainless steel tubing TIG welded to polished AISI type 316 stainless steel cast fittings.


Ercolina Logo Erclona MB42 Bender




Our Ercolina MB42 Numerical Control (NC) Bender provides smooth, consistent, high-quaility tubing bends.


Swagelok Logo Swagelok 20H Weld head Swagelok M200 Oribtial Welder Power Supply

The fittings are welded to the tubing using a state-of-the art Swagelok(r) Orbital Computer Controlled Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) Welder, just like NASA, aircraft manufacturers, ship builders, chemical and nuclear plants use for high quality, consistent, near perfect welds.


Swagelok Orbital Welds = Textbook welds!

See it weld on YouTube
... and the finished weld on YouTube


Shadow Top Parts, Tools and Optional Rod Holders
Shadow components

Shadow components, optional rod holders and tools required for install (tools not included).

(Sunbrella® canvas included but not shown)


Rear Rod Holders Side Rod Holders
Optional rod holders ...

Polished stainless steel clamp-on rod holders can be mounted on sides or rear for out of the way rod storage.


Fulton Fold Away Coupler
Combine with Fulton Fold Away Trailer Coupler

to fit the trailer in your garage.


3/16 Allen-Wrench, Phillips-Screwdriver, 7/16 Box-End-Wrench
30-45 minute installation ...
  • NO mounting holes to drill!
  • Simply requires a 3/16" allen wrench, a medium phillips screwdriver and a 7/16" box or open end wrench.

1-1/4 inch Split Jaw Slide 1 inch Split Jaw Slide 7/8 inch Split Jaw Slide
  • Attaches to your windshield grab rails with (2) split jaw slides,

  • and the rear legs attach with (2) split jaw slides for grab rails:

Angled Deck Hinge Side Mount Deck Hinge
  • or console mounts:

Sunbrella Marine Fabrics

We offer a choice of 2 Sunbrella ® colors for the Shadow top:
"The #1 marine canvas in the world" www.SUNBRELLA.com

Sunbrella Mediterranean Blue Tweed
Sunbrella Black

Shadow
Shadow Coverage

The Shadow is a great value in a welded, stainless frame folding top which assembles and installs about an hour, provides refreshing shade and raises, lowers or removes in seconds to fit in a garage or under a boat cover. This universal design can be used on a variety of center console boats and RIBs.

  • Models: Vertical ( Grab rails with less than 20 degrees rake) or Raked ( Grab rails with 20 to 65 degress rake) for Grab Rail widths of 29" to 37" inches
  • Frame: NC formed, polished 304L tubing, NC orbital TIG welded to 316 fittings. Stablizer bar mounted for port or starboard helm configuration.
  • Canvas: Black or Mediterranean Blue Tweed Sunbrella® marine canvas.
  • Size: 5'6" long X 52" wide rear X 37" wide front = 21 sq.ft coverage, fits windshield grab bars from 29 to 37 inch width.
  • Height: 23" above front grab-rail mount (typically 6'4").
  • Weight: 19.5 pounds.
  • Assembly: Assemble Port to Starboard Frame using Rear Cross Bar, and lace canvas to top.
  • Options: Rod Holders, 54-inch Triple-Bend Legs
  • Price: $973 with FREE Shipping
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