[Public-List] Foredeck -adding blocks of wood under fairleads to get them off of the toerails

[Michael]

> -Jeff Fongemie  said


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This
seems like a good idea, allowing the use of a larger sized fairlead
(width constraint on the toe-rail) as well as removing stresses from
the toe-rail itself.

has anyone done this? Care to comment? Anyone encountered problems
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The factory open chocks are lag bolted to the teak toe rail-that's the 
weak point IMHO. I have lost one of mine, but that may be because 
Checkmate's toerails are in dire need of replacement. Anyway, thru 
bolting- a pretty straightforward operation- seems to me would be all 
the beefing anyone would want, since you are going through the deck and 
the hull flange. That fairlead is not really taking the load. If I was 
worried about shock loads on a mooring, I would install massive backing 
plates under the cleats.

It seems easy to over engineer corrections. The thing is, the boat is 
massively overbuilt (by today's standards) so why not work with what is 
already there?

MichaelGrosh
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