To Jim in Fort Walton Beach,
Perhaps you should start from the other direction on the boom gallows
project.
If you have an existing mast/boom/mainsail that will not be changed,
raise the sail and
sheet it in very tight at the centerline at each reef point. Take a
vertical measurement from
the cabintop where the gallows will be situated, to the bottom of the
boom when you sheet
in at each reef point. (The gallows on the 40 is over the
companionway hatch. Is the 35
the same?) This will give you the absolute maximum height that the
boom gallows
can be without interfering with the boom/sail when underway.

Leaving some room for error/stretching sail/etc., erect a temporary
gallows and lower the
boom (with sail furled) and see where the aft end of the boom ends
up. This should give
you some parameters for locating the gallows fore/aft as well as
height. And, it will also
give you the maximum height the dodger/bimini can be without being
hit by the boom.

If you cut the corners close on clearance, whenever you have a new
mainsail made you
be sure the sailmaker knows that the old sail sets the design
criteria for the new one, or
else you will be recutting and screwing-up a nice new sail if it hits
the gallows/bimini.

This is the first boat thought to come to mind recently. Amadon Light
languishes in
Australia while a new house project is being completed in the
Southern California
desert. Two more months and it will be back to marine toilets/mildew/
varnish/galvanic
corrosion/and toxic bottom paint.

I can't wait.

Bill Healy




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