[alberg30] Digest Number 453

[alberg30]

From: "alberg30" <alberg30 at interactive.net>

Gordon, thanks for your help. I assume the bow pulpits from the older boats
are the same as the newer ones?

Thanks again,

Joe #499
"One Less Traveled"

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> From: Gordon E. White <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> To: alberg30 at onelist.com
> Subject: Re: [alberg30] Digest Number 453
> Date: Monday, November 29, 1999 8:09 AM
> 
> From: "Gordon E. White" <gewhite at crosslink.net>
> 
> Dear Joe,
>         Measuring off my boat, # 275, so one of the earlier ones, the
forward
> down-tubes of the bow pulpit are 7 1/2" apart, "inside diameter" and 12"
aft of the
> bow. There is nothing else that is narrower on the bow of my boat, but
there is a
> block of teak 2 " high - same as the toe rails - right in the bow to
which the
> forestay is mounted with a bronze fitting. This fitting is a triangular
plate with a
> raised bar with holes for attaching the stay. This bar (cast as part of
the plate) is
> about 1 1/2" high and maybe 10" long running back from the bow. It would
definitely
> get in the way of a flat piece of lumber laid between the pulpit tubes
unless you cut
> a slot in the wood you are putting down.
>     I put an anchor roller to the starboard side of the bar to which the
stay is
> attached, but it is therefore a much narrower roller. I put a piece of
oak down and
> bolted the roller to it.
>                                         - Gordon White
> 
> 
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