[Public-List] rails

[gordon white]

     On my boat (#275, non-liner) there are curved stainless steel rails 
about an inch wide that run along the top of the port and starboard toe 
rails, in  way of the cabin, where blocks ride for the headsails.

     These are secured by stainless, flat-head screws/bolts. At each end 
are round-head bolts that act as stoppers to prevent the car from going 
off the ends.

     I cannot see the ends of these screws/bolts inside the cabin.

     Are these simply screws screwed into the top edge of each side? If 
there are nuts, I cannot see them inside the boat.

     (Under each rail is a teak batten to raise them up a bit higher 
than the rail, and one of those battens has weathered away over 40 plus 
years and fallen out.)


  Gordon White, /Brigadoon II/