Selden Bowsprit Install....

[photodog]

I posted t'other day about ordering up a new bowsprit.... well here are some views of it attatched...

Overall... You can see how in our install it fouls the anchor locker... but easy to remove and very light... in addition to being able to run the line throught the pole, there is also a point for attatching a block on the outer end..

Inboard attatchment point is a simple pad eye... you can see on the end of the pole the simple lever for clamping it on....

The ring which the pole runs through, attatched by a couple of bolts to the stemhead fitting..

Overall looks just the biz... easy to use and remove.

We also have added a couple of blocks aft to run the sheets into the main winches... so a easy a tidy install which looks quite /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif with that pointy out bit!

 

[wotayottie]

let us know how you get on with it - I had been thinking about doing the same thing.

Are you getting a genaker on a folding furler?

 

[photodog]

Got a well used chute from Smokey! Had it up yesterday... while still tied onto the pontoon!

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[robbieg]

Interested if you angle the pole so when the pole is extended the tack point is down the centre line of the boat or whether the tack is always a couple of inches to port. Presumably if the latter does it mean the chute favours one tack more than the other-or is it insignificant in the great scheme of things....

 

[photodog]

My impression is that it is very close to the center line... no more than a centimeter or so off at most... if you see the aft attatchment point is set off to port a bit.... But we will see!

 

[DJE]

Presumably the first photo is the "in use" position. Does it have a retracted position too, or do you take it off and store it below when not in use?

 

[gandy]

Quite a bit of force on that ring I would think. How's it attached?

Looking forward to seeing pictures under sail.

 

[FullCircle]

I installed ours on Full Circle yesterday.
I decided not to fit a retracted position pad eye, as it was not possible to fully retract it so my LOA wasnt affected. The hump of the forecabin coachroof kind of got in the way.

Also, even when retracted, I had no access to the anchor locker, a real minus.

So, I now clip the front end of the pole with the tack line shackle to the pushpit guard rail ring,and have the spinlock 'furling' line turning block on the second stanchion back, and, by pulling the tack line tight through the clutch in the cockpit, it raises the pole off the deck and closes up the pole at the front end.
This makes the pole completely clear of deck and does not impede the opening of the anchor locker hatch either. A result, I think.

I will take photos this weekend and post (as usual).

I bought the 87mm pole, as I could make my extension 1.230m.

It sure looks like it pokes out a long way!!!

I also offet the pole rear end pad eye, to get the extension to centreline of boat when in position. It looks a bit odd, not going straight out, but thats OK.

For the previous poster concerned about CL fixing, just look at the J Boats, they have the pole exiting from the hull on one side.

 

[michael_w]

I'll take some piccies of my arrangement next weekend.

I went of the largest section available so I could gain the maximum amount of forward projection allowed for Sestina's displacement.

The ring is mounted on a fabricated bracket which in turn, is attached to the central and starboard webs of the stemhead fitting with a drop nose pin.

The inboard end straddles the anchor locker. I have no "stowed" pad eye either. I've spliced a short lanyard round the pole and lash the pole to the forward eye when retracted.

To use the anchor locker the whole thing comes aft and out of the way. As I'm on a swinging mooring, the anchor normally lives in the locker rather than on the stemhead.

I don't use the internal bullseye arrangement for the tack line as there's far too much friction. I've lashed a Harken Carbo block to the end fitting and run the line, via this and a couple of other blocks aft, through a clutch to the cockpit.

 

[snooks]

Many thanks, it's good to see how it all goes together...