- Fri May 03, 2019 11:17 am
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here's the chore, borrowing the dashboard bar from my daughter's Redfish 10

and fit it to have some kind of accessible rigging on my new/old Kestrel
This looks to be the most useful position, somewhere between ankles and mid-shin. And have to get the boat to the grass to try the ingresss/egress (too wet today).
My buddy teased me I was turning a SOT into a SINK. I told him it was more like a ragtop.
I had to narrow the legs a bit, move fittings around, and then figure how to attach to the boat.

Discovered this will be easy - the peg track has through-holes at the fasteners, so I can make cable loops using teflon-coated stainless cable and deep-sea crimp sleeves.
I have scads of cable and crimp sleeves, and the the crimping tool.
I bought a foot of 1/4" red shrink tubing to cover the crimps, from a reliable ebay vendor for $2 including postage with "guaranteed" delivery by next Mon - that's service.
I'll have to cut the loops off to move the pegs back more than halfway on the track, but they're nothing to replace.

Just waiting on the shrink tubing to arrive in tomorrow's mail to finish it up. I'll add a photo when it's done.

and fit it to have some kind of accessible rigging on my new/old Kestrel

This looks to be the most useful position, somewhere between ankles and mid-shin. And have to get the boat to the grass to try the ingresss/egress (too wet today).
My buddy teased me I was turning a SOT into a SINK. I told him it was more like a ragtop.
I had to narrow the legs a bit, move fittings around, and then figure how to attach to the boat.

Discovered this will be easy - the peg track has through-holes at the fasteners, so I can make cable loops using teflon-coated stainless cable and deep-sea crimp sleeves.
I have scads of cable and crimp sleeves, and the the crimping tool.
I bought a foot of 1/4" red shrink tubing to cover the crimps, from a reliable ebay vendor for $2 including postage with "guaranteed" delivery by next Mon - that's service.
I'll have to cut the loops off to move the pegs back more than halfway on the track, but they're nothing to replace.

Just waiting on the shrink tubing to arrive in tomorrow's mail to finish it up. I'll add a photo when it's done.
Last edited by Ron Mc on Mon May 06, 2019 7:00 am, edited 2 times in total.