Jack - thank you for the response. If the stern pulpit off the 27 being parted out [$225] does not fit, I will fall back to your suggestion. Catalina direct was quoting $1,300 for the stern pulpit plus shipping. I especially appreciated the comment on over drilling the hole, would have forgotten to do that. RICH
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Brennan" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 11:12:00 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: RE: [IC27A] stern pulpit for 27 If you aren’t successful in finding a used one, it’s not difficult to get one fabricated. I put a stern rail on my old C&C 25 for $100 to $200. First, take a look at some other boats and decide what you want. A single rail is easier to do. Usually, you have stainless steel pipe that rises about 24 inches vertically on one side of the cockpit, then bends to a horizontal position and curves around the stern before ending with another two-foot, vertical drop on the other side. Along the stern, there usually are two pipes that run vertically from T fittings on the rail to bases installed on the deck. Buy some cheap metal conduit at Home Depot and take it to your boat. Bend it to roughly how you want the stern pulpit to look. I decided to use 7/8 stainless steel for the rail. I went to the local chandlery and bought all of the hardware I needed, like rail bases and the T fittings. Then go to a metal fabricating shop and have them duplicate the model you made in conduit. It shouldn’t be more than $50 to $100 for the pipe and work. Make sure you place the T fittings on the pipe before the guy bends it. Otherwise, you won’t get them on. The fabrication guy does not have to make a perfect model. Believe it or not, the pipe can be bent with a little help from Archimedes. (Lodge the end of the pipe somewhere and push or pull until it is shaped exactly as you want.) Install the bases, making sure you overdrill the holes, fill them with epoxy and then drill smaller holes that fit your bolts. This way, water seepage won’t rot the deck core. Bend and maneuver the pipe until it fits into the two outside bases. Once you’ve done that, it’s a matter of bolting together the rest of the parts.
