R5 adjustable bimini on stock tower.

[Jesse H]

Just bought a used 2019 R5 and it has this massive, add-on adjustable Bimini rigging. Not sure if this is Cobalt, or after-market. The tower is stock Cobalt. Anyone have this add-on bimini apparatus, and know what it's called? Furthermore, I can't find any deets on setting it up/using it (installing the canvas component), or even a video tutorial. Not finding anything on YouTube. Curios if anyone is familiar with this style bimini. Thank you in advance!

[dsthomas]

That's stock... or at least it was when we got our boat last year (2022 R8 Surf). It's called "the rotating sunshade" I'm not sure what year they implemented it so it may have been retrofitted to your boat. It's an upgrade. We got it because it rotates flat as you put the tower down and it just made putting our boat in the garage a lot easier. Our dealer calls it "the bird cage" because of how it looks when the Bimini is off. From the factory it didn't come with any instructions, but it's pretty self explanatory. Don't forget to tighten the screws on the top, one member on here took a 2023 R8 surf out with the dealer and they neglected to do that. They got up to speed and the thing went flying back, caused the guy to chop the throttle back and the motor hydro locked.