Peter, Dwyer sells a 5" boom bail.
https://www.dwyermast.com/items.asp?cat1ID=40&cat1Name=Hardware&familyID=9&familyName=Bails All the best, Edd ------------------------------- Edd M. Schillay Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-B C&C 37+ | City Island, NY www.StarshipSailing.com ------------------------------- 914.332.4400 | Office 914.332.1671 | Fax 914.774.9767 | Mobile ------------------------------- Sent via iPhone 5 On Jul 19, 2013, at 10:18 PM, "Peter Fell" <prf...@gmail.com> wrote: My C&C 27 has a mast-step that looks like this: http://imageshack.us/a/img191/407/ubt7.jpg The previous owner had attached the 4:1 purchase boom vang to the 45 degree side plate which has resulted in bending the side plate! It was recommended to me to use a boom/mast bail bolted across the vertical portion of the mast-step bracket at the aft-most set of holes, with a bolt and filler ‘tube’ to avoid compressing the mast step bracket. Or to replace the aft mast-retention pin with the same set-up. Dimensions of the mast step (‘vertical’ bracket) are: Outside width = 5 inches Inside width = 4-1/4 inches Hole diameter = 7/8 inches Pin diameter = 5/8 inches 2 problems I am finding: 1) I can’t find a 5-inch wide bail 2) The larger size bails I have found (maybe 4 inch wide is the largest I’ve seen?) use a smaller bolt than 5/8 inches and no meat to drill out the holes in them, so there would be a lot of ‘slop’ there. I’m also concerned that if the boom vang can bend that mast-step side plate, what’s it going to do to a side-loaded bail and/or the vertical mast-step bracket? So ... perhaps a mast tang / hound? (much as I hate drilling holes in the mast ... but multiple holes would spread the load). I have read somewhere that part of the side of the standard C&C mast section is thicker which helps with this sort of thing? Can anyone verify? Sorry, didn’t measure the mast width. There’s also the sail track there that would complicate a tang / hound installation. By the way, the previous owner also bent the heck out of the through-bolt on the boom bail. I’ve replaced that with a new SS bolt Thanks! _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com CnC-List@cnc-list.com
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