Winch fasteners...

[atmarineservices]

Thanks for the input Brion,
I had this idea also floatting around for a solution. As far as fastening this new curved alum plate to the mast, would you try to somehow use the old holes, or new holes with rivnuts somewhere, then let the winch fasteners go into the plate, and sit inside the old "ghost" holes where the wrong rivnuts are.

Would welding a pad on be a sound solution, or would you stick with the alum plate idea?
Thanks, and masthead is a beauty, too bad it is mostly out of sight!!

[Brion Toss]

Hi again,
I'm still with the screwed-on version, and in general try to avoid welds on masts. They can certainly be done, but it is tricky, which is why we so so many failures resulting from welds in spars.
Glad the masthead is good. I look forward to seeing photo's of you under way.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss