RCsailfast
E35-3 Illinois
I need to pull the bow pulpit off this winter to replace the nav light wires.
They are dry rotted and tried pulling in new ones but they are stuck in the tubing. Had butt spliced and extended a wire as a temp repair but the other broke and can’t retrieve it. Had to use the back up battery powered clamp on nav light during a recent night sail, and will be fine with those until she gets pulled. Thankfully the lost wire isn’t shorting out.
Has anyone successfully pulled the bow pulpit without removing the bases from the deck?
I know from crawling part way into v-berth forward access door that the bases are through bolted and impossible to get to as is.
The pulpit tubes each have a screw holding them in the base. Hopefully removing the screws and some spirited mallet tapping can pop them out without disturbing the bases.
They are dry rotted and tried pulling in new ones but they are stuck in the tubing. Had butt spliced and extended a wire as a temp repair but the other broke and can’t retrieve it. Had to use the back up battery powered clamp on nav light during a recent night sail, and will be fine with those until she gets pulled. Thankfully the lost wire isn’t shorting out.
Has anyone successfully pulled the bow pulpit without removing the bases from the deck?
I know from crawling part way into v-berth forward access door that the bases are through bolted and impossible to get to as is.
The pulpit tubes each have a screw holding them in the base. Hopefully removing the screws and some spirited mallet tapping can pop them out without disturbing the bases.