Deck hardware
As you have no doubt gathered from my last few posts I have quietly started dismantling and (at times I fear) doing irreparable harm to my beloved Ariel Faith. I know it always looks awful when you are working on it, and it is hard to leave her all torn up like she is right now.
I knew there were some issues to deal with, but put off all summer, then through the fall and finally gave in when I blew my headsail. I am now in maintenance mode.
I removed the deck hardware aft of the cockpit. Removed the stern light, and flag staff mount. (going with LED tri-color mast head light)
CARVED out the silicone (see other thread) and filled in the holes with glass and epoxy.
I have used the heat gun and stripped the layer of resin that had been poured in on top of the paint in the lazarette. I then sanded the edges and re-tabbed the deck edge in and glassed new backing plates in (approx 6 x 9) under both sides where the cleats will mount.
On to the point of this thread.
My deck hardware plan
Aft;
Two 6 316 stainless chocks about where the originals mounted.
Two Hershoff style 316 stainless Cleats mounted over the glassed in plates. These will have 1 stainless fender washers in addition to the backing plates. I bought 8 cleats, but these do not seem large enough to me, so I have ordered a set of 10 cleats.
Going to re-use the pad-eyes for the chute, don't have one but that does not mean I never will.
Amidships;
New stainless for the Jib sheets, 8" stainless.
The 8 stainless cleats will go amidships, near the rail. I know most folks use the stanchion, but I want a cleat there for when I need a amidships spring. I currently tie to the stanchion base, and it is a pain at times.
Foredeck
I have a 25lb CQR that I am mounting on the bow on a roller. It is going stbd, parallel to the centerline right up next to the head stay plate. (where the stbd chock is now).
I will replace the port chock with a stainless chock, and add a set approx 18 aft on the toe rail.
I am looking to mount a Samson post (centerline of course) about 1/3 of the way back on the foredeck. My thinking is that I can make up the lines through the aft chocks when tieing up, or through the roller when anchoring and through the foreward chock when using the secondary anchor.
I am debating on mounting a second set of cleats up forward, maybe just inboard of the aft chocks. That way I would have more then one point on the bow to make up to in storm preps.
I have another set of 12 Hershoff cleats I can use, that I was going to place in-line like the cleats are now.
Thoughts?