Are you sure there are no backing plates between the skins? As for location, you're probably already familiar with this diagram:there is no existing blocking for the main sheet cleats! so ill put in some sealed up ply and pull those up and rebed them with a backer. one step forward, two back, ill use the same backer for the spin sheet cleat. if anyone has an dimensions or advice for setting those up....im all ears.
The location of the spinnaker halyard block on the aft wall of the cockpit doesn't affect anything. The parts of the line that run through it are slack (or nearly so) at all times. What you may need a cleat riser for is to get the angle right from the block on the forward wall. You want to attach that block as close to the cockpit floor as you can, but you may still need some fine-tuning at the cleat. The Harken 293 might be perfect, but you have to test it.I was thinking a riser might be needed too..since it'll run to a block a little higher up on the transom.
Helps a bit with that, too, But the point is to position the cleat vertically so that the halyard cleats automatically when hoisting. Then you won't need any extra fairlead(s) between the cleat and the forward block, either.i figured a riser was for facilitating uncleating?
Nooooo!!! I like all the things! ;-)Helps a bit with that, too, But the point is to position the cleat vertically so that the line cleats automatically when you pull it. You won't need any extra fairlead(s) between the cleat and the forward block, either.
(Alternatively, you can of course go totally North American -style with no spinnaker-related fittings on the cockpit floor. Simple but sailable.)
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It's the tiny RWO ring that you have. It should be a fit with the smaller RWO pole end (which, if I remember it right, is a pain to install), but in any case it's too weak for the L2 pole loads. It will bend....any ideas anyone?
Thank you. I'll order one up. Huge help.It's the tiny RWO ring that you have. It should be a fit with the smaller RWO pole end (which, if I remember it right, is a pain to install), but in any case it's too weak for the L2 pole loads. It will bend.
I believe the Allen A4332 was the later standard fitting: Laser Performance Laser 2 Spinnaker Pole Ring
Anything of approximately that size & construction by any spar or fitting manufacturer (such as Seldén) should do.
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Damn.. that's the one that's on there..17mm. Allen fitting.Thank you. I'll order one up. Huge help.
no dims given on that one. but this one has.The ring with the too-small (17 mm) opening and a single weld seam should be the RWO R4250, though Allen may have made a very similar fitting years ago. The inside diameter of the A4332 on the Fogh site is simply wrong: if the rod is 6 mm thick, then the opening is around 30 mm (as it should).
Here's a real bargain by the way: Club 420 Ring, Spin Pole, 420/Fj... if that number is right. And of course you should ask for the dimensions as they're not stated.
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No, that's how it's intended: the pole ends should open downwards.do i have the pole somehow installed upside down? i have it set to drop on the fitting vs push up from below.