what type of wood for new beaching legs

[Guest]

Hi, Can any body help. I need to make some beaching legs for my 28ft Scarborough sloop. What kind of wood is the best choice and are there any alternatives.
Thanks in anticipation
Ian

 

[ccscott49]

Cheap hardwood, some of the east asia redwoods or gum wood, you might be able to find some salvaged pitch pine around, which would also be fine, branches of oak trees would also do, you may even find some grown the right shape. It will need to be a durable timber and well painted/protected. I'd have a look around at some of the timber salvage places, look in yellow pages.

 

[burgundyben]

as CCS says, plus, any mahogany as salt water is a natural anti septic for the wood, mahogany gets harder in salt water but rot in fresh water

For sale, 1970 Triumph Spitfire-sold, 1947 Lambretta, 1922 Great grandmother, PM for details.

 

[Peterduck]

For beaching legs you'd use Beech, surely! [Pun intended] Lacking that, anything that's nice and strong would do. This deletes knotty pine and weathered driftwood, but almost anything else is fair game. Oh, you might also check that the grain runs along the timber, not out to one side.
Peter.

 

[Mirelle]

Anything reasonably straight grained, reluctant to split, and not too heavy or expensive; they are big enough baulks of timber in any event and you will not thank yourself for making them heavier or dearer. My first choice would be BCP (aka Douglas Fir aka Oregon Pine).

 

[bryantee]

try lawsons at burscough 01704 893998

 

[Pelican]

Hi Ian!

Why bother with wood - my 32 year old Beneteau 24ft motor sailor has legs made of alu - light, strong, rustproof and will never need replacing - as I live on an inland lake with no tides, they presently live on the balcony of my appartment and if yr interested and they are of the right lenght/size, I cud sell/give them to you!
Let me know!

Pelican

 

[tcm]

aargh he said Beneteau!

Praps he means Herbert Beneteau, the 1930's manufacturer of Boscombe Downer? I beleieve interting old sailing boat featured the conventional sanded-down telegraph pole mast and boom with traditional hundredweight of varnish, but the cruddy looking manky red canvas sail was in fact designed to operate the halyards rather than the other way around, and the zillion miles of dangly rope was the prime mover....