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Old 08-04-2010, 08:59 AM
wtenglish wtenglish is offline
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Default Re: 1978 SF restoration, my first one.....

The real conflict was that I had originally planned on having the two rod holders exposed to view where they passed through the gunnels. The gunnel support would have hidden the raw water line and would be used to mount the hose bibb on. I decided that I would make the support at that part of the gunnel 8" wide as opposed to 6" for the other two for each side. This way I could just hide all of it so I bought two rodholders that are tapped for a 1/4" drain and will run tubing to the bilge. I had to decide between a rod holder with either a 15 or 30 degree angle.

In this picture you can see a sheet of paper where I laid out both to analyze a possible conflict and decided to go with the 15 degree type. You can also see where I used 45 degree bends at the angles for the washdown line to reduce friction loss however minimal that might be.



Support angles after glassing.



Being popped out of mold.



One that has been trimmed to fit versus the raw one. Notice the sharpie lines, it takes some time with a lot of gradual cuts to get these to fit correctly right.



Supports set in place to check the layout.

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