chafe protection issue

[Sneaky Duck]

My Starboat has a rope chafe issue at the point where the backstay line exits the deck. It doesn't really cause any issue other then being ugly as sin and I'm looking for a solution. Was wondering if I were to grind back the opening a little bit to be clean and not so ragged, if perhaps I could put something on the underside, or perhaps there was some sort of product I can trim the opening with to keep the chafe from happening and make it pretty again. Ideas?

 

[Mid]

chafe protection issue​

I'm going with design issue .

 

[Will1073]

Definitely start with cleaning up Ray Charles’ cut out. You could bond a piece of 1/4” 6061 aluminum to the underside of the deck that matches the shape of the cut out (albeit slightly smaller than the Ray Charles’ cut job). The aluminum can be easily radiused and polished smooth, so the line would instead be rubbing against the rounded and polished aluminum radius, rather than ragged glass.

 

[mgs]

You could put a keeper over the cam cleat and do whatever you want to make the deck look better

 

[Sneaky Duck]

I'm going with design issue .

it's for sure a design issue. but it's my design issue now and I'm looking for a way to fix it.

 

[Sneaky Duck]

Definitely start with cleaning up Ray Charles’ cut out. You could bond a piece of 1/4” 6061 aluminum to the underside of the deck that matches the shape of the cut out (albeit slightly smaller than the Ray Charles’ cut job). The aluminum can be easily radiused and polished smooth, so the line would instead be rubbing against the rounded and polished aluminum radius, rather than ragged glass.

Calling it "Ray Charles' cut out." made me laugh out loud at dinner.... thanks for that. I'll look into an aluminum piece. It'll have to be a couple of them. I don't have access from underneath so it'll be tricky to affix. but i like that idea. It'd look clean.

 

[Sneaky Duck]

You could put a keeper over the cam cleat and do whatever you want to make the deck look better

man i wish it were that easy. there's a 2nd cleat further in. the one you can see is just the secondary safety. So that one can't have a keeper on it or the other wouldn't be able to uncleat. you comment did make me wonder if anyone's ever tried putting clutches there though. That would be kind of cool. Just have the handle flush with the deck and pull it up in the gybe to blow the old one. Probably needlessly heavy and complicated though.

 

[mgs]

man i wish it were that easy. there's a 2nd cleat further in. the one you can see is just the secondary safety. So that one can't have a keeper on it or the other wouldn't be able to uncleat. you comment did make me wonder if anyone's ever tried putting clutches there though. That would be kind of cool. Just have the handle flush with the deck and pull it up in the gybe to blow the old one. Probably needlessly heavy and complicated though.

Rope constrictor

 

[Marcjsmith]

Straighten up the cuts to a U shape in the deck. And then use some sort of u channel to wrap around the cut edges
Similar to the crap they put on car doors as edge protection....

Or get a piece of stainless tube that’s bent in the same u shape of the deck and then cut a groove in the tube to make the cross section c shape and then install with some adhesive to cover the raw edge. This would reduce chafing and not look too horrible. The hard part would be getting the tube to bend in a consistent radius without kinks

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

Definitely start with cleaning up Ray Charles’ cut out. You could bond a piece of 1/4” 6061 aluminum to the underside of the deck that matches the shape of the cut out (albeit slightly smaller than the Ray Charles’ cut job). The aluminum can be easily radiused and polished smooth, so the line would instead be rubbing against the rounded and polished aluminum radius, rather than ragged glass.

car door edging?

 

[Grrr...]

Open it up and clean up the edges. Then put an eye just before the cam cleat.

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