Bow eye location?

[Creekboater]

Where is everyone putting their bow eyes? I cant find any particular measurement for location.

[Hooky]

G'day Martin,
I installed the bow eye 760mm from the top of the breast hook to the top of the bow eye. I seem to remember I obtained the measurement from another blog but can't remember which one (seniors' moment).
I double checked the location by using the water line and comparing this with an elevation view of John's PocketShip.
Hope this helps.
Cheers mate
Terry

[Creekboater]

Thanks Terry. Which breast hook?

[dbeck]

Hi Martin,

our approach has been a different one, we used the PAINTED waterline as a reference. We used the same measures as given on page 217 in the manual. 16 1/2" above the bottom of the keel. Then, we placed bow eye above the PAINTED waterline. Attached photo: The red lines BELOW the blue stripe indicate the PAINTED waterline. When looking closely, you might see the predrilled holes for the boweye. The apparent thickness of the blue line is one inch when looking from the side. Thus, the center of our bow eye sits more than one inch above the PAINTED waterline. I don't think the exact position is very critical and in our case the position was determined by 'somewhere above the waterline but not too high'.

BTW: The second picture shows the situation from the inside after installation, seen through inspection port in bulkhead #1 through the 'foam tunnel'. Right after drilling the holes, we had glued a piece of wood to this area with thickened epoxy and the whole thing was enforced with more glass tape. The bolts are 8mm thick and the black stuff is sealant.

Hope this helps,

Dietrich

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[Hooky]

Hi Martin,
The measurement was from the upper breast hook, the blog I found the measurement was called “Sunmonkey”
Cheers
Terry

[Creekboater]

Thanks to you both. Your measurements each put me in about the same place, so I drilled those holes out this weekend. I was shocked at how straight I got my holes.

[slash2]

I’m late to the party, but mine measures 28” from top of breasthook to the middle of the boweye. I built the kit so the bob stay was premade. I needed a 2” long shackle to join the bob stay to the boweye. It takes a slight effort to fasten it. So I could have located the boweye a bit higher and used a standard shackle.