Archive for the 'anchoring' Category
Saturday, July 12th, 2008
bowsprit sketches
Jack has really been pushing his idea of flying an asymetrical spinnaker off of the new anchoring sprit. I did the research and found a really decently priced asym furler from CDI but I wasn’t sure about the geometry. So as usual I played.
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Meet the stem head fitting : part 2
Now that I think about it, I might want to thank the stem head for being so damn crappy (seriously, all stainless rigging, bronze chocks, all stainless hardware and stainless chainplates attached to a cast aluminum fitting…). reason? It probably gave me the boat. Ok, the fitting didn’t actually give it to me but it’s failure did. The bow mounted anchor chocks were made out of good high quality bronze and were bolted directly to the aluminum fitting… and thats it! The fitting corroded, the chock broke off, the anchor rope chaffed on the broken edge and Hobyn broke free of her mooring.
Since reading books by the Pardeys and Annie Hill and the essential boat building witicisms of Ferenc Maté, I began to realize just how important my anchoring system is and the epiphany of how I came to own Hobyn crystalized this. I’ve been looking for a reason to buy a TIG setup, a full stainless stemhead/anchoring platform sounds like a plan.
Something like this maybe, but not as ugly/chunky:
I think I’ll run this by Jack when I head back over to the boat to patch up the mess left by the fitting. The deck was never actually sealed here, just left *sort of* matched up and completely drowned in polysulfide sealant (which of course has shrunk considerably in its 40 years of service and is no longer worth a damn)