Here is where I sign in and out on this subject:

I replaced all my chainplates (and other similar fittings) over the last
year - made sense with new mast and rigging.

On my Baba 30, they were all easy to remove - though, the stern plate
required removing some teak. [I cannot imagine why Ta Shing glassed in the
chainplates on earlier models].

I moved up the bobstay fitting out of the water.

Everything is 316, except for the cranse iron (ring whatever) which is bronze.

None of the chainplates showed corrosion - there was some crazing and
discoloration.

The bolts holding the bobstay fitting were a questionable and the fact
that the inside of the fitting was covered with boat yard debris and
fiberglass and who knows what, was a bad sign.

I figure the new fitting should hold me for another 20 years or so if I
still have the boat that long.

Once the chainplates are removed for inspection, may as well replace
them. Labor far exceeded cost of materials.

Alan

ps In the process, I move the inner stays forward, and now have forward
lower stays. These attach to new chainplates at the bulkhead on the
forward side of the head (starboard) and closet (port.) These now support
the mast when the boat is sailed with the inner forestay removed. Perry
says that forward lowers would have been a better original design


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"Framboise"
Port Annapolis Marina
Baba 30-xls, Hull No. 227.
[43' custom aluminum spar, no quarterberth, no boom gallows, Yanmar 3GMF,
teak veneer interior]



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Received on Mon May 23 20:15:00 2005