Does anyone know what these fittings are?

[carl170]

Hi.

Once again, I turn to my learned friends on this forum.

I am looking to paint my boat in the next few weeks (as soon as the weather is a little warmer).

There are several fittings on my boat that I don't recognise.

As I don't know what thaey are, I don't know whether to remove them or not.

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww315/carl170/DSC_1827.jpg

They come as a pair!

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww315/carl170/DSC_1826.jpg


Also, there is this one. There seems to be one either side of the tiller.



If anyone knows what they are, please tell me!

Also, I would like to emebed the imaged but have no icons when creating a new post (like I do in every other forum!)

Regards

Carl

 

[Deleted member 36384]

The bottom link's picture is a mounting bracket for a Walker trailing Log. They are handed, port and standard, so that the log can be streamed from each side. If you do not have a Walker Log, they are items which can be sold on ebay as they tend to be missing from second hand ones.

I dont know what the top link pictures are.

Regards,

BlowingOldBoots

 

[ripvan1]

The bottom one I believe is a bracket for a walkers log, not sure about the pair of green fings tho'

 

[Mel]

The third picture is a mounting for a Walkers log. Normally sited at the transom - one each side. The Walkers log is a mechanical device that has a string running outboard with a spinner in the water. The device translates the number of spins into distance travelled.

 

[VicS]

Hi.


Also, I would like to emebed the imaged but have no icons when creating a new post (like I do in every other forum!)

Regards

Carl

Go to "Settings" top RH corner

then in "My settings" go to "General settings" and find the " Message editor interface".
Change that to "standard editor"

Save the change.

You will now have a whole load of editing tools to play with and even more if you " go advanced"

But you dont need them to post Photo bucket images. Just copy and paste the the IMG code into your post


I reckon the ones on the transom could have been for a boarding ladder. ??????

and for good measure a Walker log.

 

[carl170]

Thanks for that everyone!

If I can just figure out what the other things are! I might remove them and then put them safely to one side, just in case.

Regards

Carl

 

[Rigger Mortice]

Are those clips on the transom? At a guess I wonder if they are for a removable boarding ladder or a mount for an outboard.

 

[Hornet_UK]

Maybe they were for mounting some sort of tiller pilot autohelm thingy.

 

[seadog30]

Hi Carl

I had some of these fittings shown in the top pictures in my 1960's Macwester they were to mount a removeable compas !!

However the boat also had two small similar fittings at the back of the cockpit took ages to work out that they were the femail half of a bracket used to hang a cockpit table on !

Good luck