Having a Dodger and Bimini makes a Sailboat much more pleasant. With the Dodger we can keep the companion way hatch open and still keep the rain out. I remember one trip, returning home coming up the Hudson river , before having the Dodger, on a cold drizzly day in August and freezing my butt off. The Bimini kept the rain off my head but the cold damp rain blowing in my face for 6 hours, was the reason I bought the Dodger.