Hmm maybe I won't have to mess with adjustments much you see I do not have a cransiron nor does my bowsprit move at all! It is fitted through the bullworks and under the caprail. it nests upon a teak curved step on the deck before it goes through the samson posts.
I am going to give the 3/8 a try.... it will be like wrestling with an anaconda to get that 4 inch oval for the strop. I might make it a bit bigger as it won't be hanging downward like the mast soft eyes... I can then just use some seizing to make it the right size. Other than bronze screws for locust wood and lignum cheeks and of course the bronze bolts for the samson posts, no other metals have been in this bow sprit or on it. I do have some bronze small rollers but they connect by screwing opposite and into each other through the bowsprit. The masts and bow sprit are all solid wood. The bowsprit is spruce and nicely light...those masts are fir and very very heavy!
This is actually another problem I face as this boat had no depth transducer nor wire into the masts. Did get a simple transducer which will mean minimum drilling into the hull... the stem is 11.5 inches thick and there are huge floor timbers. I will drill with a long 1/8 th drill bit and then use a 2 inch Forstner to place it with some goo.
I worked so hard on those masts (others too)... I can't bear to see any holes in it. I wish they made solar nav lights which could be turned on and off... I did find some but they were kinda ugly and around 2 K a piece. The remote was another 2K.
Truly this boat is just the way she was launched. I have put her back to her previous name and her masts are varnished again.
Well I had better get on with the anaconda.
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