Winter project this year. Had some stress cracking and maybe a touch of moisture in the bow. Removed the bow roller which was attached with flimsy small alum backing plates. Several screws bent. A real pain to get off because you can’t reach the far ones unless you can fit in the anchor locker. Made a new backing plate — 1/4 inch alum and pem nut inserts. Dry fitted and much easier to install. Ain‘t going nowhere.
Bow Roller Re-Bed
- Thread starter Golfman25
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Capap
Member from Wisconsin
- Nov 13, 2020
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- Boat Info
- 280 Sundancer 2003
- Engines
- Twin 4.3 Mercruisers
Nice work.
Yeah, six of them. I think its a small piece of aluminum. I don't think they though the bow roller would take a lot of the load -- unless of course previous owners used it to anchor out.
Gotcha. Truthfully, that's quite a large back plate for the situation... and obviously has been doing it's job for over a quarter century. Some manufacturers install windlasses into a thin, un-reinforced deck with only washers!
I like your fix!
I like your fix!
Yeah. My fix isn't going anywhere.Gotcha. Truthfully, that's quite a large back plate for the situation... and obviously has been doing it's job for over a quarter century. Some manufacturers install windlasses into a thin, un-reinforced deck with only washers!
I like your fix!
