Rhett_m
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Hi all. I wanted to share a few pictures of my rigging project. Hopefully it helps someone out who’s going through, or thinking about doing this. After sailing on a relatively calm day in Southern California, I snapped the u bolt on the port forward untold right at the deck due to crevice corrosion. I believe these I bolts with the flat top were original from Ericson in 1982. I decided to replace all of them, but I had a hard time sourcing them. I wound up having some made from 1/2” 316 stainless rod from Casey at pacific offshore rigging. I had the two starboard aluminum backing plates made by dynamic marine machining. The port ones were sanded and re anodized. I bedded with 4200. I also put a thin film of 4200 on the mating surface of the aluminum block in hopes that it alleviates friction on the fiberglass surface, thus reducing the chances of it wearing the anodized surface causing corrosion. Right now I’ve only done the lower shrouds, but I have the parts to do the side stays. I’m going to drop the mast when I do those because I’m going to refurbish the mast step.
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