bow hook repair

[seabob4]

I went with 6" only because I wasn't 100% confident that I was cutting directly behind it...figured a little room to wiggle my arm up or down as necessary would be prudent.  That said, if I had it to do over, I'd have gone 4" and cheated toward the top of the compartment, for what little difference that would have made.

I'd of done the same, Ryan

[Aswaff400]

Note the relatively good condition (relative to the rusty crap that was inside) of the portion of the u-bolt that was outside of the boat...

And the sawzall is not my go-to cutting tool, but it seemed best for this application.  It's actually #4 behind Oxy/Acetylene, plasma cutter, and grinder  8)  

any time a sawzall is used is good work!  i used a sawzall, grinder, and leaf blower as my tools of choice when i started my rebuild

[SaltH2OHokie]

I work in commercial construction, so I'm around a lot of tools, but I'll be honest, we don't do a lot of heavy lifting with the "leaf blower"  :P

We call cordless angle grinders "master keys" because any sub who puts a hasp and lock on a door while we're under construction without giving us (GC) a key, if I can't find the sub with a key before I find my "master key", that's what I use to get their lock off the door  

[TheKid]

Then I cut a piece of anodized aluminum as a big backing washer and installed the new one.  Pie-plate installed and done  

DID you use any filler between the aluminum plate and bow of boat? That would reduce or eliminate any high stress points.

I used thickened cabisol, it is never coming out or moving one bit.

[SaltH2OHokie]

Then I cut a piece of anodized aluminum as a big backing washer and installed the new one.  Pie-plate installed and done  

DID you use any filler between the aluminum plate and bow of boat? That would reduce or eliminate any high stress points.

I used thickened cabisol, it is never coming out or moving one bit.

Negative, but the factory blocking/coring/thickened pad was still pretty good as far as I could feel, so in the short term I feel okay about it.