Typhoon stemhead fitting / bow roller

Richard Stephens · Post by **Richard Stephens** » Feb 27th, '98, 17:33

I am in the process of buying a '72 Typhoon weekender.

I plan to keep the boat on a mooring that is open to quite
a choppy sea. I am concerned about stemhead fitting, which
lacks a bow roller - it only has two fairleads, open at the
top.

I saw a newer Typhoon that has a much better stemhead fitting
with a proper roller with safty pin to keep the mooring rope
in place.

Does anybody have experience of using the earlier stemhead on
an exposed mooring, or of upgrading the fitting?

rstephens@alexusa.com