Pinnacle
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More pics for clarity.
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Seldon Bowsprit fitting
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Theshipscat
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I could've put money on this happening. Neale F%$ktw&t at Allspars has now come back and said he only said "he'd thought it would be ok". The lying ****e is now saying he needed to speak to his boss and that's what he told me. Blatant bull**** i hope his next dump is a hedgehog. Why is there so much of this in boating. If you know for sure say so if you don't say you don't. I'm sick of being given bad information from chandlers and manufacturers supposed expert representatives.
Theshipscat
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I have Foxs on the case who as said earlier are a really nice bunch.
Pinnacle.
There's a lot going on up there I can see why you're having problems. What about the bolt through job as made for Jeaneaus, would that not fit?
Pinnacle.
There's a lot going on up there I can see why you're having problems. What about the bolt through job as made for Jeaneaus, would that not fit?
Pinnacle
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Not sure you can see in the pics, but the forestay is not attached at any point to the anchor roller unit. So, I am not entirely sure if I want to put a lot of upward load on a fitting intended to take the downward pull of the anchor chain.
Otherwise, as you say, it looks a good way around the problem.
Theshipscat
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I suppose if you send a picture to Seldon and something to give it all scale, like a coke can they might be able to recommend the correct fitting. I was origianlly going to fit mine behind the Bow plate but it would've given me a foot sprit max.
Im beginning to wish I'd gone with my original plan of using a windsurfing carbon mast cut into three sections, covered in epoxy (or whatever the best glue is for carbon) then inserted inside themselves. That would give me a laminated wall of 9mm + I was then going to get a engineer mate of mine to make up a couple of end caps from delrin and couple of brackets.
FullCircle
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OK then, have him make a bracket that will bolt through those nice 4 holes just behind then, and down bolt through those countersunk screws if you feel that uncomfortable with the loads. Its not beyond the wit of the average fabricator, they will massively over engineer it.