Beaching yacht legs - what lines to run?

[wonkywinch]

An L-shaped bracket backing plate, or a "knee" bracket web, might connect the chain plate with the leg attachment, with advantage to both, if you didn't mind being potentially considered a bit un-clever in some quarters.

I can see the advantage of a fabricated L piece of stainless to fit that area, especially if it was bonded to the hull. It would serve to take any load from the shrouds when windward faced without the risk of the bolts pulling through or lifting the deck away from the hull.

 

[vyv_cox]

I can see the advantage of a fabricated L piece of stainless to fit that area, especially if it was bonded to the hull. It would serve to take any load from the shrouds when windward faced without the risk of the bokts pulling through or lifting the deck away from the hull.

The shrouds may be too far from the optimum position in some designs. The advice from Yacht Legs when I fitted mIne was to set them at the centre of the fin keel ground length. In my case this is about half a metre after of the shrouds.

As shown on my website I used Tufnol as a backing inside the hull. I never saw any indications that this was inadequate.