Stern stanchions

[Brooke]

Does anyone know how to reach the nuts for the bolts to the two stanchions on the transom? We're re-embedding all the stanchions (a fun project), but we haven't found how to access the nuts for these two stanchions at the stern. On our 1985 Catalina 25, these two aft-most stanchions have two bolts each (not four like most of the others). Thanks for any help.

 

[Don]

Stern rail

If you are referring to the stern rail, and it is like my c-27, there are no nuts. There are threaded plates inside the fiberglass.

 

[Brooke]

Thanks, Don. Do you also have two screws for each of the two stanchions on the transom? It's a relief to know I don't have to keep searching for access to the nuts for the bolts.

 

[Bayard Gross]

Must be same for C-22

Thanx for the advice Don.I'll bet my aft pulpit stanctions on my C-22 are screwed into the same threaded plate that my backstay eye is threaded into, not to mention the upper gudgeon is screwed into a threaded plate as well.Sometime around 1981 and around C-22 hull number 9911, Catalina began placing a bronze (brass?) plate along the top edge of the transom but under the fibeglass top. The only way to know it is there is to drill into the top of the transom and see if gold colored metal shavings appear to come up along the drill bit. And that is how I discovered that I have this plate when I drilled a pilot hole for a second backstay eye for a backstay adjuster.I do not know why I never thought of this myself. At least now I can try to rebed my aft pulpit.