Guard wire netting with a solid wooden caprail

[stranded]

We are shortly going to try our (my wife’s!) new puppy on board so I need to fit netting. Easy except we have solid wood cap rails so nothing convenient to tie it down to. Best idea I can come up with is dyneema or somesuch pulled as tight as I can around the stanchions under the screws which hold them to their bases. But any other ideas - really don’t want to drill hooks into the caprail if I can avoid it?

 

[MontyMariner]

Best idea I can come up with is dyneema or somesuch pulled as tight as I can around the stanchions

Sounds good to me.

 

[Stemar]

If you've got stanchions, a D ring attached with a jubilee clip allows you to attach the netting without lines round the rail which might damage the varnish over time

 

[stranded]

If you've got stanchions, a D ring attached with a jubilee clip allows you to attach the netting without lines round the rail which might damage the varnish over time

Varnish? . But otherwise that is a very good suggestion - much more secure, thanks.

 

[andsarkit]

pipe clips

 

[rogerthebodger]

You could screw some of these under the wood caprails and attach the netting to there saddles

 

[penberth3]

We are shortly going to try our (my wife’s!) new puppy on board so I need to fit netting. Easy except we have solid wood cap rails so nothing convenient to tie it down to. Best idea I can come up with is dyneema or somesuch pulled as tight as I can around the stanchions under the screws which hold them to their bases. But any other ideas - really don’t want to drill hooks into the caprail if I can avoid it?

Any problem just lacing it over the top rail? Time consuming and tedious but it would work. No drilling, no permanent fixings.

 

[James_Calvert]

When we had netting because of little children I didn't want my footing compromised when boarding from alongside. So I stretched a line along the bases of the stanchions and threaded the bottom of the netting through that.

Worked fine using about 3 or 4 mm braided polyester as I recall.

(I did something similar along the top of the netting so I could still easily attach fenders to the top lifeline.)

 

[stranded]

Any problem just lacing it over the top rail? Time consuming and tedious but it would work. No drilling, no permanent fixings.

No, but it is the bottom that I am concerned about - am I misunderstanding you?

 

[stranded]

When we had netting because of little children I didn't want my footing compromised when boarding from alongside. So I stretched a line along the bases of the stanchions and threaded the bottom of the netting through that.

Worked fine using about 3 or 4 mm braided polyester as I recall.

(I did something similar along the top of the netting so I could still easily attach fenders to the top lifeline.)

That was what I was thinking - I thought the jubilee clips and d rings was a good solution but I’m not sure there will be room below the stanchion fixing screws - I’ll have to measure.