Just bought some market umbrellas to cool things down...

[Homebrewale]

We want the shade over the pool so we need to use the cantilevered umbrellas. My current umbrella is 6-7 years old (not sure of age). It has lasted a long time because it is never open except when we are using it, we use a bungle cord to tie the umbrella to the pole so it wound sway when closed and then the whole umbrella setup is taken down and store when the pool is closed for the winter.

 

[Poolnerdgrandma]

Thanks. Probably doing a vinyl IGP so I thought this might be a good idea for shallow end.

One note... The umbrella poles on my cantilevered umbrellas are oval, not circular like the plain patio umbrella we put in the sunshelf umbrella sleeve.