David. I've always admired the work you've done on Freebird. I just reviewed your bowsprit project. The admiration continues. I've been planning to do a bowsprit for my boat, probably in a year or so. The 1980 Pearson 33 next to me has a bowsprit which I intended to copy. It looks pretty much like the one you just built. I planned on securing the supporting leg just above the anchor drain hole, but I like what you did. Can you give more details (even a photo) of how you secured it? Keep up the great projects.
David Underwood, are you there?
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Thanks Dale,
I will be happy to share any information I can. The lower support is thru bolted to the inside of the hull. I had the welder use a fairly thick piece of SS .. about 1/4 inch thick. It was about 1 3/4 inches by about 8 inches. I also had him to drill thur the SS pipe near the middle of where attaches to this plate. I Had him to put a SS tube with about 7/16" inside diameter, the same size of the bolt and weld it from both sides making it water proof. One bolt goes thru that hole (tube or sleeve) and thur the hull.. the other bolt goes thur the plate into the hull just below where the angle of the support tube ends. The two bolts, which are about 3 inches apart, keeps the support tube from flexing. There is a matching backing plate inside the hull where I built up the fiberglass enough to provide a good flat surface to mount. This increased the thickness of that area.. the V part that is to about 4 inches deep. The Fiberglass spans out to spread the load, about 8 x 16 inches which works out to be about 4x16 on each side of the V part of the hull .. on the inside that is. Oh, almost forgot, after the welder finished his part, I used the grinder to decrease the size of the plate around the SS pipe, and gave it a more pleasing shape. I also flattened the area where it mounted, this meant removing about 1/4 to 3/8 inch of the piont of the hull to give a flat surface for more sure footing of the support tube plate.. also coated it with West System Epoxy to seal the raw glass. I'll try to post a few more follow up shots if I make it up there this weekend. Thank you for your kind remarks, made my wife take notice! Let me know if I can help in any way.
I will be happy to share any information I can. The lower support is thru bolted to the inside of the hull. I had the welder use a fairly thick piece of SS .. about 1/4 inch thick. It was about 1 3/4 inches by about 8 inches. I also had him to drill thur the SS pipe near the middle of where attaches to this plate. I Had him to put a SS tube with about 7/16" inside diameter, the same size of the bolt and weld it from both sides making it water proof. One bolt goes thru that hole (tube or sleeve) and thur the hull.. the other bolt goes thur the plate into the hull just below where the angle of the support tube ends. The two bolts, which are about 3 inches apart, keeps the support tube from flexing. There is a matching backing plate inside the hull where I built up the fiberglass enough to provide a good flat surface to mount. This increased the thickness of that area.. the V part that is to about 4 inches deep. The Fiberglass spans out to spread the load, about 8 x 16 inches which works out to be about 4x16 on each side of the V part of the hull .. on the inside that is. Oh, almost forgot, after the welder finished his part, I used the grinder to decrease the size of the plate around the SS pipe, and gave it a more pleasing shape. I also flattened the area where it mounted, this meant removing about 1/4 to 3/8 inch of the piont of the hull to give a flat surface for more sure footing of the support tube plate.. also coated it with West System Epoxy to seal the raw glass. I'll try to post a few more follow up shots if I make it up there this weekend. Thank you for your kind remarks, made my wife take notice! Let me know if I can help in any way.
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