Beaching legs for Danbrit

[mtb]

Over the past few weeks I've been doing this little project , I got some very useful advice from rich ( ta mate )
It was typical that I got one leg attatched to the boat and then coming home the temp on the Landrover went red !! . By the time I'd ordered a new water pump and t/belt it took another week to get back down there to weld on the port side.

As you can see a bit of a job and as yet I have not tried em out but I think it will work out ok .
The web site is updated re the making of the legs so take a look there for more.

Cheers
Mick

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[rich]

HI MICK,it's looking good,not sure about leverage between leg n plumer .looks abit iffy...

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[jfm]

Mick:
Looked at your website, enjoyed it. Massive job!

We have used beaching legs on a smaller boat. As you say, the load is tiny so long as the boat is straight. Once it begins to lean, the loads are big. We fitted large steel plates at the bottom of the legs, to stop sinking into sand.

Bit worried about the plumber blocks. Very small bases, not designed for a "twisting" load. If there is just the normal compressive load on the legs then you should be ok. But if the boat moves and there is an outward or inward splaying load on the leg, there could be trouble, becuase of massive leverage of leg. So, you need to be very careful not to have a splaying out or in load on the bottom of the leg imho. The weak spot may well be the cast iron plumber block casings, rather than your bolts.

Good luck, let us know how it works. Have you seen <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatsandyachts4sale.co.uk/boats/661/661-1.htm> this </A>- similar to yours and asking £35k! Praps you need to become VAT registered at this rate

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[mtb]

Yes it will all be there or there abouts that problems may occur.
The way I've tried so far re holding the legs in place is with a ratchet strap lower down, there's not much chance of movement once the strap is tight.

I had a chat with the fella from
http://www.tradboats.com/index.html

while buying the calking hammer and irons at the Norfolk boat jumble he told me of a friend that has a 50 odd ft boat that's got legs fitted .
They are fitted into brackets along the gunwale. He had em made guess how much ? you wont believe it over £2000 core what a lot of dosh mind you they are made out of ally and are adjustable plus easy to stow .
So if this attempt fails then I'll go for that method or some thing like it .
Apparently he even has spirit levels and sets the boat level .

Thinking about it I could add some form of bracket on the deck to physically lock the leg once down but I will see how it goes .
Tomorrow morning is crunch time .

Did you say 35 k wow I'd let mine go for less than a third of that only cos I've seen a smaller thing that really turns me on .

Cheers
Mick

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