Greetings, It has been a few years since I was last subscribed to this list, it is great to see that it is still operating - thanks Stu. I have a '75 C&C33-1 and I would like to fabricate a stainless steel plate/roller to fit over the aluminum nose piece at the pointy end of the boat. I have reviewed the bow roller examples at the C&CPhotoAlbum site for ideas. I want a roller that I can carry, deploy, and raise the anchor from. I have a Fortress FX-16 (not too heavy) and based on a mock-up I made the starboard side of this fabricated plate would only need to extend a couple inches past the edge of the nose casting and a couple of inches beyond the forward edge to keep the anchor from hitting the hull. My idea was then to either weld on a commercially available roller designed for the Fortress/Danforth or to have the channel and roller fabricated from scratch as part of the plate. I was planing on attaching the plate to the aluminum nose casting with maybe 6 suitable machines screws forward of the metal fairleds/chocks that came standard. My yard's very talented stainless fabricator spent some time examining the boat and in the end decided that it would be unwise/unsafe to drill and tap holes into that casting to support a roller - declining the work. He was worried that it could not take the strain and there could be an accident. Looking around the yard I have seen a lot of pretty cheesy bow rollers fabricated and mounted on the front of boats, and they look like they have been there for years. Does anyone on the list have experience with one of these retrofitted bow rollers on a C&C of this vintage and style? Any problems or failures? There was a yard in Ontario that used to make them. I had spoken with them 7-8 years ago and they said they still had the templates and could make me one. The price scared me off at the time and my back was younger - so I took no action. I have since lost the name of that yard and my back is not what it used to be. Does anyone know of someone who creates these? ken
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