Solid kicker/boom strut?

[Kukri]

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They did build it and I have been "on board" it during training. It was in a big shed.

The idea was to help decide where everything would fit, pipe runs and so on.

Nowadays it would all be done by CAD, of course.

Some of the merchant ships I was an engineer on could have done with having something like that done.

I was on a couple of horrible ships owned by the Gomba Shipping Company where the machinery layout seemed to have been done by dropping everything down the funnel and welding it in place wherever it happened to land.

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However, that is not why I came to this thread. I am interested in your planned boom gallows mounted ahead of the cockpit because I would like to fit something similar. I'm thinking of using aluminium KeeLite tube and fittings with a teak crossbar.

This sort of thing:

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Not as nice as the bronze fittings in the Davey catalogue but the price asked for them is sky-high.

Did you ever go ahead with this idea?

Not yet, thanks to you know what. I still intend to do it. Having a slightly different shape of coach roof I want to “land” the legs on the side decks. Daveys no longer make the fittings but it might be worth asking “Mr Stainless” at Suffolk Yacht Harbour...