[ChuckG]

Originally Posted by Patrick™

You are nucking FUTS! Brace it with the bracing sitting on top of the size, this way the weight of the canopy will be spread out along all the glass available except where your weir is. IF you braced it on the inside then if you did not have it perfectly straight and level, you would create pressure points with a canopy.

Ah - life on the edge, ain't it great?

There "must" be a reason why, at least some, eurobracing is done with the brace on the inside rather than just laying it on top.

Why?

Because it would simply be too easy to lay it on top and people love challenges? I don't think so. There must be a logical reasoning that we haven't thought of yet.