Plastic builder's late

[Walter Hobbs]

Inspecting my (new to me) CD 27 and saw that the builders plate is (gasp) plastic! Did some come with the bronze builders plate and some plastic? I guess one of the first "improvements" will be to get the bronze from Bristol Bronze. She'll probably point higher and sail above hull speed.


Walter Hobbs
CD 27 # 35
Yet to take delivery
Name to be determined.

[psjanker]

Walter

I had the same situation with my CD 28. There are a couple of folks that will do up a plate that can be searched via this forum, I recall one National meeting where a door price was having a plate made up for your boat....I won and am going to use that plate as a belt buckle. You can do what I did for my first CD and use the plastic plate as a template that most any foundry will use to make a Bronze replica.


Consider having a spare made for either a buckle or for placing behind the helm.

V/r

Pete

[Nebe]

remove it and send it to a bronze caster. they can just make a sand mold of it and presto! bronze.

[mgphl52]

Try contacting Bristol Bronze first. They made the one I have on KAYLA, but that was back in 2002... Their current 'catalog' doesn't list Cape Dory plates, but I'll bet they still can make them.

[Carl Thunberg]

Hi Walter, It was good meeting you on Saturday at the Cabin Fever Lunch.

Bristol Bronze always has a booth (table, really) at the Maine Boatbuilders Show and they usually have a pretty good inventory of Cape Dory builders plates on-hand. The Maine Boatbuilders Show is March 22-24, 2019.

[Neil Gordon]

>>Consider having a spare made for either a buckle or for placing behind the helm.<<

Here we go with the tiller/wheel thing again.

[mgphl52]

>>Consider having a spare made for either a buckle or for placing behind the helm.<<

Here we go with the tiller/wheel thing again.

And I still have never seen a tiller boat carry an emergency wheel...
(just couldn't resist...)