Anyone know if a bow roller will fit without doing the bowsprit mods? If so, which one? And a pick of it installed would be awesome.
1981 H33 bow roller
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Gaurhauer AR-35, works great. 1/4" starboard to fit the wedge from plastic bow cap to anchor well edge. Replaced large hollow aluminum bow cleat with 12" stainless solid cleat. I added 2 titanium 1"x1/4"x8" bars (one on each side) to provide a means to secure the 22# bruce anchor in place. Top hole is a bolt parking place for 3/8" bolt. This will also hold my 35 lb CQR, but I prefer the stainless Bruce. 5 - 4"x5/16 carriage bolts hold the roller to the bow. Now I have a great place to attach the asym spinnicker tack; the roller loop. I cut 4-5" of toe rail back to provide room for new 6" SS skeen chocks.
Gizzard, the anchor looks a little close to the bow. Do you have a problem with the anchor hitting the bow?
Hi Ed, I did not feel I needed to reinforce the bow where the roller attached. The fiberglass is about 3+ inches thick where the bolts go through. I could add a 3/4" shim/spacer between the port side of the roller and the forestay bow brack and attach the bow roller to the bracket with a 5/16" bolt, but observing the roller while under asym spinniker sail and the spinniker tack attached to the roller bale, it does not move a hair in any direction so it verified my assessment that it was not really required.
While sailing from NJ to Block Island on the outside (Atlantic Ocean) we passed through the Montauk Pt rip. We hit a pretty deep standing wave and burried the bow. The roller/anchor took the full force and the 3/8" bolt securing the anchor to the roller was bent about 1/4" at the mid-point of the span between the titanium bars. No issue with the titanium, roller or its attachment points. It posed a slight challenge to remove the bolt from the Ti brackets. However, the bolt straightened easily with a few blows with a 16oz. hammer.
A picture of Arpeggio flying her spinniker can be seen here: http://www.richgard.com/H33Images/IMG_2922.jpg
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The PO had the block and halyard installed so I am not sure what was done. I will speak to my marina master about it. He just installed the windex 15 a month ago. He may be able to recall what he saw.
Rich- I was able to download and copy the hi-res picture. I then zoomed-in on your masthead and was able to see it pretty well... It does not look like anything like a "crane" was added... I was also able to see how you ran your lines. Thanks for posting that; it was a great help. Ed H
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