Bow cleat too small for multi~lines...

[Craig Weis]

Comfort and Joy has a problem;

Many years I struggling with as many as three dock lines on my CP-19's bow cleat and this forced me to manufacture a proper 'bow-line-arresting-apparatus, also know as a Sampson post. Kind of.

I just read and viewed the pictures from Jaybird's post, where a very nice Sampson post was installed on his bow. It seams too huge for my boat. I downsized.

Using some nickle bronze scrap from work. I sawed out a 3~1/4" diameter x 1/4" flat plate.
Drilled a center hole for 1~1/4" pipe and drilled and counter sunk four holes in this plate for bronze 1/4"-20 flat head machine screws, washers, and nuts. This fits the same bolt pattern as the original bow cleat...that is 1~1/2" x 1~3/4". Be careful about the bow~stern orientation. I could alway change back to the cleat if something did not work.

Next the 1~1/4" nickle bronze pipe was cut 3~1/2" tall with 1/4" of this pipe fitting down into the plate for that extra 'holding power' and the slug cut out of this 1/4" plate was used to cap off the pipe at the top...giving a very nice professional finished look.

The next drill operation made a hole clean through this pipe for a 1/2" stainless steel tube cross piece. I cut this ss tube about 3~1/2" long and centered the hole through the pipe about 1" down from the top of the pipe [slug].
I did not want to tig the stainless steel into the aluminium bronze after polishing so the last thing to do was to fill the inside of the pipe with PLEXUS to hold the stainless steel tube. It will never come out! And the pipe will never 'crush in' or 'oil can' either.

I tigged her all up being careful that the hole for the stainless steel tube was 'port~starboard' and spent a few hours on the polishing wheels till a mirror finish was achieved. Installed the new post with 3-M 5200 and  WOW! It's way cool. Problem solved and no sail control line problems when comming about. skip.
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[Paul]

Sounds like a great job.  Any photos?  Did you through bolt with a backing plate?

[Craig Weis]

Eye Son! The little Sampson Post...affixed well indeed. With a through plate of 10 mm aluminum even the original boat did not have a backing plate but instead relies on a plywood doubler glassed into the bottom side of the deck.  More then plenty which anyway you decide to assemble these pieces. skip.

[Paul]

STOUT.