Plastic builder's late

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Walter Hobbs
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Plastic builder's late

Post by 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.


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Re: Plastic builder's late

Post by 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

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Post by Nebe »

remove it and send it to a bronze caster. they can just make a sand mold of it and presto! bronze.
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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.
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Post by 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.
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>>Consider having a spare made for either a buckle or for placing behind the helm.<<

Here we go with the tiller/wheel thing again.
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Neil Gordon wrote:>>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...)
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