The Old Stanchion Bases
We are alive and well and finally hard at work restoring our Ebbtide 33. I hope to get photos of all the little projects John's tackled up on the blog later today. We have wonderful stories of boats that have been fully restored and are cruising all over the world, but none of the painstaking and small details that go into these transformations. That's the phase we're in now.
Stanchion bases: this is what we took off the boat and John is replicating them in stainless, so we won't have to worry about lines and shackles rubbing and deteriorating the paint, causing rust spots. We spent a great deal of time tracking down the specific dimensions of stainless, pipe, plate, and rod, not to mention the welding wire he'll need to fabricate each. It has been an adventure in doing-it-ourselves, but above is a picture of the new base in progress.
Stanchion bases: this is what we took off the boat and John is replicating them in stainless, so we won't have to worry about lines and shackles rubbing and deteriorating the paint, causing rust spots. We spent a great deal of time tracking down the specific dimensions of stainless, pipe, plate, and rod, not to mention the welding wire he'll need to fabricate each. It has been an adventure in doing-it-ourselves, but above is a picture of the new base in progress.
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