yacht legs

[doug748]

Give me a PM viago, with your name and address and I will send you an old PBO article which may give you a few ideas.
It is posible to buy the Yacht Legs top castings and make your own legs and stand off brackets.

 

[vyv_cox]

It is posible to buy the Yacht Legs top castings and make your own legs and stand off brackets.

At a price! Last time I looked they were £130 +VAT.

It must surely be cheaper to have a couple made. Rather than cast them, maybe fabricated from short lengths of pipe with a welded on flange for attachment to the boat. Then cover them with wood to improve the appearance. Turning the pins to go on on the legs would be very cheap, I had a couple done some years ago, didn't cost a lot.

 

[ffiill]

My legs which came with my boat are a hydrid in the sense that the main body of the legs are wood nicely shaped to the hull but with feet and tops fabricated out of stainless plate/rectangular section tube.
They are secured through the hull via an internally mounted plate to which is welded a thickwall internally threaded tube which is taken through to the outside of the hull plus two back plated bolts that run through my high bulwarks about 6 inches for and aft of the legs centre line. Rings are fitted to the feet to attack for and aft ropes. The feet are 12 inch square plates.
If you dismantle it its storable in one of my long side lockers below deck.
Having said this my long keeler will almost balance upright and because of its relatively shallow draft it does not go too far over if allowed to settle on one of its reinforced bilge pads.
(See mounting just above forward support leg-reinforced bilge between legs)

 

[viago]

At a price! Last time I looked they were £130 +VAT.

It must surely be cheaper to have a couple made. Rather than cast them, maybe fabricated from short lengths of pipe with a welded on flange for attachment to the boat. Then cover them with wood to improve the appearance. Turning the pins to go on on the legs would be very cheap, I had a couple done some years ago, didn't cost a lot.

i take from this that you dont much go with my suggestions for attaching the legs. pity, cos its easier for me as i can just buy the parts on-line.
all this advise im getting is fantastic. thanks to you all.
im still waiting for the clanger to drop and hear tales of woe and foreboding.

 

[viago]

thought i might try without legs, taking a lead from this guy.