Hey Bob,
I agree Starboard is well suited to this sort of application, but I don’t want to pay a “pro” to make this thing for hundreds of dollars, and I’ll be darned if I’d know how to get the exact mast curvature into one side of a Starboard block. Even if I scribed the curve onto the ‘board’s edge and managed to gain access to a band saw – not likely where I am – it’d be a very tricky cut to execute perfectly. Or maybe I’m making a bigger deal out of it than it really is.
My thought is to tape wax paper around the mast, tape an 8 or 10″ square piece of fiberglass cloth flat over that at the place I’ll be mounting the winch, and apply resin to the cloth. When it hardens I’ll have the exact curve. From there it’s relatively quick & easy to build up the >1″ thickness I need with epoxy resin & mat, finish the outward side flat with resin & 404 filler, trim the whole to the 6″ diameter pad I need, and drill three mounting holes to match the winch base. A couple of coats of UV paint should help it live way longer than I’m likely to. Like I said, kind of a fun little project, but another project nonetheless, which I don’t really need just now.
Anyway, that’s the best I’ve come up with. Am wide open to better ideas! Meanwhile, I will check with Sailor’s Exchange to see if they just happen to have a pad that fits.
Thanks,
Tor
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