Inboard Spreader attachment

[seawolf]

Hello all,
Hope all had a great holiday and a good start to the new year.
My re-rig in the slip of my 1962 Columbia 29 is almost done. Its taken me a few weekends what a rigger probably would be able to accomplish is a day or so, but it is all about the experience, and learning.
I have one last question to bring forward. I had pulled the wooden spreaders off the boat and have a temporary one on the stbd side with a temporary upper in place on the other.
The spreaders look in good shape and I have decided to reuse them.
The inboard attachment to the mast is through a welded fitting on the mast that is basically a channel welded perpedicular to the mast with two holes in it for fasterners or pins.
Pretty typical on older boats that I have seen. Looking about the marina with my binoculars, I see a lot of these type of spreader attachments using two SS bolts through the channel and spreader with possibly ny-lock nuts. My spreaders were fastened with Clevis pins and cotters.
Would it be advised to use bolts and nuts, which would limit the angle I could have the spreader to the shroud, to the angle that the fitting is welded to the mast, (this is angled slighty up from the horizontal) or to continue with the old set up that may leave a little more room for moving the spreader up and down to locate the proper angle to bicect the upper shroud?.
Thanks for all the help.
I may be able to actually go sailing in a couple of weekends!

[Brian Duff]

Are the lugs on the mast welded such that the 'flat' or wide portion is horizontal or vertical? another way to state the same this is do the pins go up and down or fore and aft?

Thanks

[seawolf]

The pins go in from the top. Up and down.

[Brian Duff]

and there are just single lugs , as in a tab on the mast and a tab on the spreader? If that be the case, bolts!

if there are two tabs on the mast and a single on the spreader, then pins are okay. either way, the tip should be securely lashed to the shroud to prevent movement.