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Re: Strip: perimeter line fasteners
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 9/19/2008, 10:33 am
In Response To: Strip: perimeter line fasteners (Dave)

: Hello All,
: I drilled and filled the holes for my deck rigging and perimeter line. The
: line will terminate at the ends of the fore and aft decks. Last night,
: admiring my work, I realized that my ares are not long enough to reach
: that far into the boat through the hatches to put a nut on the end of the
: bolt. I've had a few ideas floating around like hot gluing the nut and
: washers to a stick or the end of a box end wrench. I will be using
: stainless steel fasteners and webbing. Any other ideas?
: Thanks,
: Dave

Other possibility is to glue (epoxy) a block of wood into the ends, block can be long enough to enable you to reach it then weight it as a clamp [obviously boat has to be upside down for this to work] then use stainless wood screws for the ends instead of screws and nuts.

Bill H.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: perimeter line fasteners
Dave -- 9/18/2008, 8:11 pm
Re: Strip: perimeter line fasteners *LINK*
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 9/19/2008, 2:18 pm
Re: Strip: perimeter line fasteners
Bill Hamm -- 9/19/2008, 10:33 am
ideas - perimeter line fasteners
mike allen -- 9/18/2008, 11:27 pm