I have mine about 6" off the water. I have the Icecap endcaps that screw up through the bottom of the standoff and into the mounting foot of the end cap. I had some acrylic(1/4") so I cut strips as wide as the endcap base, then I cut little squares to raise the strip up off the canopy and drilled holes to bolt the endcaps to the strip, then drilled the stand off in a couple places to attach th whole thing to the canopy. Does that make sense? You could do it with wood too, I just had the acrylic handy and its one less thing to water proof
-----0----------0---------0---------0----------
----^-^------^-^------^-^------^-^-----------
--- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
! ! ! !
sorry this is crude but the 0 represents the bulb and encap sitting on the long continous strip, the shorter lines are the small squares that hold up the main strip and ! represents the screws holding the whole thing on the canopy, only upside down. The ^^ are the little bolts attaching the end caps to the main support strip. HTH
Darn when I post this it compresses the stick drawing, and screws it up. You might hit edit and seee if it will show the original relationship,sorry
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I dont advocate holding marine creatures for ransom but......since you asked
Doug, plank owner
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[This message has been edited by Doug1 (edited 02-07-2001).]
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