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The previous owner of my Helms 25 removed the bulkheads that the stays are attached to. Do I need replace these or can I get away with just backing it with a large plate to spread the force?
Or, put them in for hull support and move the shrouds to the outside hull maybe and put long strong pads under them and good backer plates inside the hull....... S'a thought....
When you put the chain plates on the hull, the deck acts as a longitudinal bulkhead. There is no way a vertical pull on a chain plate will force a deck inwards, taking the load on edge.
It's not a vertical pull. Even if there are no lower shrouds, unless the spreaders are the width of the deck there's a component of the shroud tension that pulls inward towards the mast.
The bulkheads are going to the overhead. I was worried about the downward force of the mast on just the compression post and the vertical force the stays would put on the deck in rough weather.
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