pop up bow light
02-07-2009 | 10:07 AM
#11
Registered
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,801
Likes: 33
From: Palm Bay FL
I have a cheap solution for you all.
After you set your anchor, take the line & loop it through the bow eye so you have a loop going through the bow eye. Take that loop up to the cleat & attach like the looped end of a dock line. Voila! You now have solved your bow light breakage problem.
After you set your anchor, take the line & loop it through the bow eye so you have a loop going through the bow eye. Take that loop up to the cleat & attach like the looped end of a dock line. Voila! You now have solved your bow light breakage problem.
02-07-2009 | 09:31 PM
#12
Registered
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 558
Likes: 0
From: Indianapolis, IN
Also need to remove cleats & put some pop ups in, then remove those line holders, or whatever they are called.
I dunno, if you leave the cleats positioned where they are, you just about have to keep the line holders don't you? to keep the lines from chaffing on the boat? Or do you mean to remove the cleats that are there and put new ones near where the line holders are now?
02-07-2009 | 09:52 PM
#13
Registered
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 1,801
Likes: 33
From: Palm Bay FL
right, move the pop up cleats out to where the line holders are now. that part of the bow is a storage area so no issue w/ the cleat being recessed.
02-09-2009 | 06:18 PM
#14
Thread Starter
Registered
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1,628
Likes: 2
From: Huntsville, AL
my anchor line is attached to the boat inside the locker, so I can not feeed the line throught he tow hook. plus i have to replace light anyway, so might as well use the one i want to fix other problems. i will run the drain into my anchor locker. So the LED one is the one to go with.
Obnoxous:
does the new hole line up? or am i making new ones for the screws too? also got a link to the correct one? any pics?
thanks going to be ordering and putting in with a few other goodies, TV/dvd, inverter, marine radio and intena.
Obnoxous:
does the new hole line up? or am i making new ones for the screws too? also got a link to the correct one? any pics?
thanks going to be ordering and putting in with a few other goodies, TV/dvd, inverter, marine radio and intena.
02-09-2009 | 06:29 PM
#15
Registered
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 4,333
Likes: 5
From: USA
my anchor line is attached to the boat inside the locker, so I can not feeed the line throught he tow hook. plus i have to replace light anyway, so might as well use the one i want to fix other problems. i will run the drain into my anchor locker. So the LED one is the one to go with.
02-09-2009 | 08:22 PM
#16
Charter Member #1171
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 4,018
Likes: 21
From: Clearwater, FL
No,,,, you have to make new holes,,,,,, gonna give you a trade secret,,,,,, drill the screw mount hole in reverse.
The LED popups are the round install ones.
__________________
I want to live in a world where a chicken can cross the road and not have its motives questioned.
I want to live in a world where a chicken can cross the road and not have its motives questioned.
02-09-2009 | 08:25 PM
#17
Charter Member #1171
Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 4,018
Likes: 21
From: Clearwater, FL
__________________
I want to live in a world where a chicken can cross the road and not have its motives questioned.
I want to live in a world where a chicken can cross the road and not have its motives questioned.
02-09-2009 | 08:33 PM
#19
Registered
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 757
Likes: 0
From: Fort Myers,FL
I have a cheap solution for you all.
After you set your anchor, take the line & loop it through the bow eye so you have a loop going through the bow eye. Take that loop up to the cleat & attach like the looped end of a dock line. Voila! You now have solved your bow light breakage problem.
After you set your anchor, take the line & loop it through the bow eye so you have a loop going through the bow eye. Take that loop up to the cleat & attach like the looped end of a dock line. Voila! You now have solved your bow light breakage problem.
02-10-2009 | 01:41 PM
#20
Thread Starter
Registered
Joined: May 2006
Posts: 1,628
Likes: 2
From: Huntsville, AL
drill in reverse?
like drill from inside the boat to the out side? would not thing you could get the drill in there.
or just spin the srill in reverse so it does not bit into the fiber glass so hard?
like drill from inside the boat to the out side? would not thing you could get the drill in there.
or just spin the srill in reverse so it does not bit into the fiber glass so hard?
