Rear beam bolt

[shwell]

Hello, does anyone know of where a rear beam bolt can be got? The boat is a Jan Linsard from about '84. The bolt goes through the gunwhale.

Thanks,

shwell.

[pondskum]

Hey Michael try the Universal Bolt Bloke if you have one near by or the local yellow pages it shouldn't be anything to special just stainless steel. If you got a sample just take it in. Thought you were riding the A Class now not fixing Tigers still.

Regards

Denis

[shwell]

Yeah am on an A now, the bloke who bought my boat needs it. It's a bit of a puzzle why he needs it though, I wonder how it came off - perhaps trailering.

[tom]

On a Jan hull, the bolt is welded to a stainless steel plate which is "bogged" in underneath the gunwhale. If it "dropped out", there must be a visible chunk of filler missing under the deck.

To replace it, you will need to get an 8mm stainless bolt welded to a stainless plate. From memory the standard plate was 3mm by 75mm, and these had a nasty habit of pulling through the deck under load. Sometimes they just snapped where the bolt was welded onto the plate.

This can be overcome by spreading the load over a greater distance under the gunwhale. (ie longer plate or even some stainless tubing)

[shwell]

Thanks Tom, if anyone has one for sale could they please contact me at michael.boswell@gmail.com fairly urgently.

Originally posted by tom:

On a Jan hull, the bolt is welded to a stainless steel plate which is "bogged" in underneath the gunwhale. If it "dropped out", there must be a visible chunk of filler missing under the deck.

To replace it, you will need to get an 8mm stainless bolt welded to a stainless plate. From memory the standard plate was 3mm by 75mm, and these had a nasty habit of pulling through the deck under load. Sometimes they just snapped where the bolt was welded onto the plate.

This can be overcome by spreading the load over a greater distance under the gunwhale. (ie longer plate or even some stainless tubing)