Crashed my Bow Pulpit

[SailingCal21]

Well, guess that I've joined the ranks of those who crash their bow pulpit into a pylon whilest docking. Fortunately, no one was injured, except of course for the captian's ego, but that's an easy fix.Cracked the deck where the pulpit mounts, bent and broke the pulpit and pushed the whole afair about 4 inches back on the port side.I'm planning on removing the pulpit and take it to someone to straighten and wield. I'm thinking that I'll construct a jig of the same dimensions as the mounting on the deck to give the wielder something to straighten to, so that I can reinstall it in roughly the same location.Rudy with D&R Marine says that the deck is cored with plywood at the bow. I'm planning on cutting out the bad glass, epoxying in some marine plywood and building up to the deck level with layers of glass cloth. Then backing each area with more marine plywood below decks.I'm located in Richmond, VA anyone know a good wielder who could handle repairing several cracked wields and straighting out the tubing?Or other suggestions concerning the repair?Scotts/v Karma1981 O'Day 34

 

[Grizz]

Fell bad @ pulpit crash, but...

...I'd really like to know how you constructed and submitted the 4-panel photo. Now THAT's slick and worth at least 4,000 words. Good luck on your repair.

 

[Brian M H23]

Just

copy-past the pictures into MS paint, resize it, and save as a jpg. (or use any other image program)

 

[SailingCal21]

Brian's right ...

...simple cut, paste and post. Wish is was as easy as fixing the mess.

 

[John24107]

I don't feel so bad now

I hit a piling on my first attempt ever returning to my slip. It cost me a new bow light. How fast were you going in the marina? I wonder if you don't have some water damage under that stanchion that contributed to the deck buckling on impact.

 

[Jim]

You damaged the core.

It will have to be repaired. You right about the repair. Looks like there may be some core rot too. Glad no one was hurt. I am sure that I'll do it too someday.

 

[RAD]

Ouch! that hurt

The good part is there's access to the nuts from the anchor locker and you should be able to fill the holes and damage with West System and instll backing plates cause ODay just had tiny little washers above the nuts

 

[Larry Wilson]

Welder in Richmond

Scott,West End Machine just off of Staples Mill is as good as any. I've had several of my West Marine customers mention them. Also, I have a stainless pulpit that may fit your boat. If you can get me dimensions, I'll measure for comparison. Might be a cheaper fix for you. Larry Wilson Richmond,Va.

 

[CalebD]

That pulpit is barely damaged.

It may look a little like a drunken sailor out for a night on the town right now but it (probably) can be repaired. Our boat chafed off its mooring in a blow in Long Island Sound and found some dock pilings to bash the crap out of our bow pulpit a few years ago. My boat is from 1967 so is built like a brick sh!+ house so the pulpit crunching did not cause any deck damage that I know of but the piling covered in barnacles certainly did gouge out a nice 1' divot on our port bow deck joint. That was fun to repair!We paid $750 for a new bow pulpit (taken to the cleaners) so you really should try to repair the old one before going down that road if possible.Good luck and someday you will look back at this and laugh.Oh yeah, do keep your speed down when manouvering in and out of the slip. That will keep future damage down but may try your patience!PS, nice 2x2 photos. Quite helpful (but where is the rotten deck core someone mentioned?).

 

[Brian M H23]

I did this

2 years ago. lucky for me, the H23 pulpit is cheap and the welds that connect the pulpit to the base brackets snapped! bend it back, weld the baseplates back on, good to go!

 

[nova]

Ouch!

Bad ...Karma ?

 

[SailingCal21]

Thanks for the input...

It's becoming a nusiance now instead of a disaster.In retrospect, yes my boat speed was too high. The wind and wavelets were blowing into the harbor at Tangier Island, however the tide current was going out, which I did not observe until it was too late. Karma was getting crossed up coming into the slip. I should have simply backed up and done a "go-around"...which I ended up doing anyway.Fyi, the port aft stanstion mount does show some signs of being weakened by water damage.Scott

 

[steve rainey]

bow fix

why put plywood in there, I'd just do the whole thing in glass. Plywood is just something else to get wet and have to fix in the future..