stanchions for Express 37 (or other Santa Cruz ULDBs)?

[sierrawhiskeygolf]

So Rain Man, you're saying the SC27 toe rail too close to the edge of the hull for brackets like the ones I posted above? It's already close enough on the O30 that we determined not to use just a landing plate only on the deck like most other boats, and bent the plates around to the sides of hull. We looked at other soluitons, like incorporating the toe rail into the stanchion base somehow but nothing seemed clean enough, design wise.

 

[atnan]

Just to confirm- the rust issues go away with better quality stainless? We are about to completely redo our SC 27 stanchions as the rust problem is out of control.

I have all the stanchions off mine (Medusa #145) right now; the new Garhauer stanchions I bought and installed 1.5y ago are chock full of rust, and I’m at my wit’s end FSR’ing the rust streaks.

For now I’m planning to clean & passivate the stanchions with Wichinox and re-install, but the pultruded rod solution is mighty tempting.

Curious what you end up doing. What SC27 do you have?

 

[Monkey]

The stubs will not break before the stanchion bends just above them. Solid GRP rod. I suspect that the tabbing inside would fail first, too (see pic just above ^^). What I don’t know is what would happen in a serious collision. Probably hull damage, but that is likely anyway. Advantage to a bolted base in that case as the stanchion makes a poor lever arm.

Based on some not very scientific research (attempting to remove all but one Port side stanchions from an SC70, with a B25 as the removal tool), the tabbing only cracked on one socket. On the rest, the stanchions just folded over.

 

[Rain Man]

I have all the stanchions off mine (Medusa #145) right now; the new Garhauer stanchions I bought and installed 1.5y ago are chock full of rust, and I’m at my wit’s end FSR’ing the rust streaks.

For now I’m planning to clean & passivate the stanchions with Wichinox and re-install, but the pultruded rod solution is mighty tempting.

Curious what you end up doing. What SC27 do you have?

We have ex-Li'l Surfrider, ex-Little Blue Dune Buggy, and several other names before that. Hull #71. She is an on-going restoration project, prolonged because she needed a metric shit-ton of work, we are busy and actively racing her too.