Tension bar sketch 001 These angles are pretty close to the ones on my bar. What I would do is try to mock up a bar out of wood for instances and check to see how it fits. Then take it to a welder and have him make you up one similar to it out of 1" stainless steel pipe.
DSC01108 I used to attach my yacht ensign to my backstay years ago till I got an idea of making a flag staff out of a short 1" S.S. pipe. I took the pipe to the marine fabricator one day and had him put a bend in it for me. I made a round cap out of a piece of Teak and attached it to the top of the staff and bored a hole in the other end of the pipe for the Fast Pin to hold it to my fore way fitting. It came out real nice. I keep the flag attached to the staff and I usually remove the staff and stow it in the cabin when the boat is on the mooring.
DSC01042 The curved pipe that the welder made up is about 30" high from the top of the transom and it leans forward in order for the mast crutch pipe to fit in the 90 degree base flange on the sole plate with the pipe straight up and down. The guy did a superb job I think and he only charged me $230. The straight mast crutch pipe stows pulls out of the four way fitting and is stowed down below in one of my settee compartments when not in use.
DSC00450 This is a mast crutch attachment that I had made up for me years ago by a marine metal fabricator. I made the wooden crutch and later install a small roller in it. The weight of the mast is being supported by the 90 degree 1" base fitting which is screwed to the cockpit sole just in front of the self bailing well.
Tension bar sketch 001 These angles are pretty close to the ones on my bar. What I would do is try to mock up a bar out of wood for instances and check to see how it fits. Then take it to a welder and have him make you up one similar to it out of 1" stainless steel pipe.
scan0001 Before you construct one of these, get a measurement of your mast tabernacle bolt spacing. Then figure on the size plate needed to accommodate that spacing for you holes.
222 Tension bar 3 If there is any give to your cabin roof due to the pressure of the shrouds bearing down on the mast, you may discover that your shrouds are getting loose. I truly believe that this problem can be avoided altogether by installing a strut similar to this one. This strut was installed at the Fall River Ma., O'Day factory in 1986 when they built my boat.
222 Tension bar 2 This strut is just a 1" stainless steel pipe with a flat spot on one end with two holes in it for bolting to the galley cabinet post. The other end has a welded flange with two holes for attaching to the mast tabernacle bolts. The bolt spacing on the welded flange might be different depending on what make mast and tabernacle is on the boat. My boat came with Z-Difusion (Z-Spar) internal halyards and I suspect that the tabernacle plate on the cabin may have a different bolt spacing than an O'Day 222 with Dwyer spars.
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Tension bar sketch 001 These angles are pretty close to the ones on my bar. What I would do is try to mock up a bar out of wood for instances and check to see how it fits. Then take it to a welder and have him make you up one similar to it out of 1" stainless steel pipe.

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