Pin Rail for Halyard Storage

[jkleins]

Originally Posted by Ocean Girl

You guys are great! I will look into the halyard monkeys (cool idea) and JKleins, that darn book was mere inches from me when I read your post.. I forget about all my books when I have this fab internet resource.
Thanks,
Erika

Ain't that the truth. I pulled several out of the book shelves a few months ago and came up with so many good ideas my to-do list ballooned so much I had to do a serious trimming during the last snow.

Jim

[cburger]

Here is a picture of my fake pinrails on the W32. This is a modern adaptation, the pins are fixed and the assembly fits onto tabs attached to the mast pulpits. This type of setup is available and can be adapted to affix to shrouds with a little imagination. I also have schematics for traditional belaying pins if you wish to fab yourself and keep traditional. A nice touch would be to make some pocket boards that would mount traditional navigation lamps and attached to the backside the pin rail with pins, all on the shrouds.

Chris

[Ocean Girl]

Chris, where did you purchase the assembly? I goggled and couldn't find them.
Erika

[cburger]

It came with the boat when I purchased it. I will do a little snooping around to some of the classic boat chandleries. The other thing is that simple pin rails out of white oak are very easy to make, basicly just shaping large wooden dowels and gluing into a shaped and sized wooden board. I have done this in the past for a wooden sailboat boats I built.

[cburger]

Stocklists of BELAYING PIN, TEAK - ø hole 19mm marine equipment

[cburger]

If you call theese folks in Mass. i wouldn't be suprised if they will make the rail for you, they sell pins and hbuild wooden boats: Pert Lowell Co., Inc., Mast Hoops and Wooden Hardware

[Gazelle Family]

The word pin rail describes the cleating method for a flyrail in a hemp lineset theater to fly scenery and has been called that since mobey was a minnow