Our Oceanis 323 survived Harvey but everything topside was sheared off, bent or swept away by either the storm or subsequent recovery activity. I need to know the bolt pattern footprints for the bow rail and each of the starboard and port side stern rail pulpits so I can get new ones fabricated since they are out of production. Please help if you can.
Need bow and stern rail pulpit diagrams
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- Oct 22, 2014
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Welcome to the forum Jerry.
Sorry to hear your boat challenge. Storm damage is never fun.
Have you got a picture of the deck where the pulpits were sheared away? I am going to suspect that some of the damage was done by the bases ripping out of and through the deck. In this case the hole pattern is not material. You can have any pattern you want made. You are going to need to rebuild the deck. The previous holes will be damaged and serioud fiberglass repair will be needed.
I had new pulpits made for my boat this past winter. We moved some of the bases to accommodate planned changes on the bow with a new roller. The local company rep came out and measured the ares of the two pulpits. We discussed design needs and changes we wanted. The took about 3 weeks to make the pulpits. We fitted them on the boat. They required some tweaking as not all the bases were in the proper locations. They remeasured and came back 2 days later. We fitted the pulpits to the boat. Drilled new holes. Bedded the bases with butyl. Happy campers.
Company is local "Rail Makers". I am pretty sure you have someone like them in your area.
Sorry to hear your boat challenge. Storm damage is never fun.
Have you got a picture of the deck where the pulpits were sheared away? I am going to suspect that some of the damage was done by the bases ripping out of and through the deck. In this case the hole pattern is not material. You can have any pattern you want made. You are going to need to rebuild the deck. The previous holes will be damaged and serioud fiberglass repair will be needed.
I had new pulpits made for my boat this past winter. We moved some of the bases to accommodate planned changes on the bow with a new roller. The local company rep came out and measured the ares of the two pulpits. We discussed design needs and changes we wanted. The took about 3 weeks to make the pulpits. We fitted them on the boat. They required some tweaking as not all the bases were in the proper locations. They remeasured and came back 2 days later. We fitted the pulpits to the boat. Drilled new holes. Bedded the bases with butyl. Happy campers.
Company is local "Rail Makers". I am pretty sure you have someone like them in your area.
We had to remove the toe rail since every section of it was bent or broken. The bow rail was bent, the starboard rail was broken (mast fell on it) and the port rail was bent but all holes were intact. Originally, price and availability for replacements were attractive but the hull refinishing took longer than expected and parts were obsoleted. I am now having difficulty identifying the correct holes to measure for the template to fabricate new pulpits since there are so many without the toe rail in place.