Bronze bobstays and wood putty

Thank you Douglas,

What a pleasure to hear from you again.

The photo came through very nicely and that fitting looks just fine to me.

What I hear you saying is I can safely ignore the bobstay
for ten years before worrying about digging it out - works for me!

After almost a year I am in the home stretch on the scuttle
hatch. I think that works out to 3-4 weeks of worrying
for every day of actual work done. George Beuhler is right
about one thing - putty is the wood butcher’s friend. All told I’m pretty
happy with it - looks great as long as you don’t look too close…say from
across the street

I learned more on this project than on anything else I have done so far.

regards

Don

----- Original Message -----
From: “Douglas Walling” <dwkayaks@spiderweb.com.au >
To: <bcc@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: [bcc] Bronze Hardware

Hi Don, I am in process of installing the Port Townsend Foundry bronze
lower chainplate fitting.
I saw and photographed one on BCC Flyer, so I could send the pic if you
like, will try to attach it here.
Larry didn’t like the bronze fitting from PTF, saying that it was a wooden
boat fitting, indicating that it was not good to use on our F/G BCC’s, he
recommended using bronze flat plates bolted to the stemhead on each side.
Shannon sailboats use this surface mounted chainplate only they use SS
too.
The SS factory installed chainplate will last many years, but I don’t
consider it a boat “lifetime” fitting, because “potted” or enclosed SS is
not inspectable, and in surveyor books, the recommendation is to “never”
pot
SS.
With that in mind, I was careful in removing the factory installed SS
plate,
to see if there was evidence of deterioriation after 15 years.
There was surface rust on the imbedded portion, but I haven’t had the time
to clean it up to inspect for crevice corrosion yet. The rust is the first
step in the crevice corrosion process, and under every rust spot you will
see a pit or pitting deterioration has started and if left unattended will
get worse.

My midship SS chainplates developed spider web cracks around the pin holes
after 10 years in Hawaiian waters, and the prepurchase surveyor always
recommends replacing structural SS fittings on boats used in Hawaiian
waters
for more than 10 years.

Congratulations on completing construction of your forward scuttle
hatch, Douglas

----- Original Message -----
From: “Baggywrinkle” <baggywrinkle@cfl.rr.com >
To: <bcc@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:57 PM
Subject: [bcc] Bronze Hardware

I’m thinking of chucking the stainless steel hardware in favor of
bronze.

Would it be a mistake to leave the SS bobstay fitting in place or is it
asking for galvanic corrosion?

Cheers

Don

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