DECK HARDWARE

The storage locker under the aft deck is accessed via a hatch that will be closed almost all the time. Originally there were two ventilation ports. One was a cowl vent whose port was in the middle of the hatch. You can see it just aft of the mizzen mast in the picture below (from 2007).

I don’t plan on installing the cowl vent again. I recall that it tended to get in the way underfoot while furling the mizzen main. The other ventilation port is pictured below, and the metal thing is the corresponding vent.

Here it is reinstalled:

Here are the reinstalled aft-deck cleats:

Here is the reinstalled mizzen-mast step:

On the foredeck, above the anchor locker, there is a hawse (into and out of which goes the anchor rode). There is also a port for ventilation…

…into which a cowl vent goes. The vent can be turned into the wind for air influx, or away from the wind for air efflux.

COCKPIT CLEATS

There are six cleats that reside on the outside surface of the teak coaming. Under sail they are used to secure sheets. At a dock, or rafted with another boat, they are useful for securing spring lines. I retrieved them from a dusty box. At a glance they appear identical, but the bolt-hole locations and the backing plates are not quite. Here are three of the six:

I cleaned them up and relabeled them:

The backing plates are visible on the inside of the coaming:

Here are the port-side cleats:

And those on the starboard side:

PRIMARY WINCHES

There are two pairs of sheet winches that are supported by bronze brackets that are bolted both through the deck and the coaming. I call the two forward in the cockpit the “Cheoy Lee” winches because the make/model is unknown, and possibly made at the Cheoy Lee Shipyard. The closest one in the image below is a “Cheoy Lee” winch. The aft two are Barient winches, and slightly smaller.

RUCKLE originally had teak decks, which were originally about 3/8″ thick. Thus, to duplicate the original placement, the brackets must sit on “pads” that are about 3/8″ thick. I made them out of teak. (I had to enforce the same correction back in 2009, after removing the teak decks.)

Three bolts secure the brackets to the deck, and here I’m checking the bolt placement after drilling holes in the pads:

The whole job was an 8-hour day, and I didn’t pause for too many pictures. Here are the holes in the deck for the port “Cheoy Lee” winch:

Here is the port-side installation:

And the starboard side:

I’m not sure if the Barient winches were upgrades, but it’s interesting to note that the “Cheoy Lee” winches require one type of winch handle, while the Barient winches utilize standard winch handles. Note the differences:

And also in the handles: