Skip Don't know the particulars of the "step" so the following may be way off or you may have gone there already...
I sounds like the steps could be fabricated from aluminum tube, mandrel bend and flattened at the ends for attachment. The "platform" might be a plate welded onto the tube. That's just a quick and dirty impression. If you checked in at www.weldingweb.com or http://www.millerwelds.com/resources/communities/mboard/ or http://www.hobartwelders.com/weldtalk/ or www.practicalmachinist.com or likely other trades oriented sites, they could probably give you a pretty good review of your options. Sure seems like something that could be fabbed up at something like a reasonable cost. Cheers, Rufus -----Original Message----- From: Flying Pig <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 3:01 pm Subject: [Liveaboard] ISO Pace-Edwards Mast Steps ISO Pace-Edwards Mast Steps So, Sasquatch, here. My feet are way bigger than would be comfortable on the usual mast step. One which is ideal, but no longer made, is Pace-Edwards. I first started this search about 4 years ago, and having seen someone else' boat with them has prompted me to take keyboard in hand again. Googling, finding, then calling and talking with the factory reveals that they have not made them for many years (and this started 4 years ago!). There seemed to be some interest in selling their tooling, so that someone might address that niche market, but they've never followed up with me despite many mails and calls. Surely, someone/some joint, somewhere, has NOS, or perhaps, even, some salvaged ones. I only need a single step, unless someone had about 20 of them. That's Pace-Edwards, Made In USA, stamped on the foot area side "wings (what makes them more comfy; it's wider by far than the standard mast step). What makes these so good (for me) is a very large foot enclosure and base, and rounded sides, kinder on the hands and feet when banged against or pulled on as you go from one to the next. None I've seen of what's available currently meet those standards. In the long shot that someone knows of a potential source for these, or ones meeting the same standards (footrest area 2x5.5 [footrest] x9 [height from footrest to top]" inside measure, anodized aluminum or better), I'd very much like to know about it. We want to get mast steps, but not something which will be uncomfortable to climb or stand on for an extended period. ?? Thanks. L8R Skip, currently in the Bahamas, but will be stateside in April for a wedding, and guests arriving before then... Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery! Follow us at http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog and/or http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog "Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in boats-or *with* boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
