This weekend there was a F-32 in a slip near me and he had the stanchion bases pictured below. My Goiot stanchion bases need to be replaced and I like these a lot better as you don’t get the galvanic corrosion typically associated with it. All I’d need to do is to place a plastic insulator between these stanchion bases and the toe rail, and they should be corrosion free.
Does anyone have a source for these stanchion bases?
– Geoff
I believe that the stanchions are from RigRite (http://www.rigrite.com/Hardware/Stanchions_&_Bases/Stanchion_Bases_SS.html). Part SB 36-H0-T90F. Price $69.
– Geoff
I replaced all my stanchion bases with aluminum Goiot plus matching 75cm high stanchions, gates and nylon sleeves. I chose these bases because they had room to drill and tap them in the exact locations of the three holes in the toerail. Stainless bases would have been much stronger but would still keep the risk of corrosion against the aluminum toerail. Even with the original aluminum bases, I had bad patches of corrosion of the toerail. Surprisingly not around the bolt holes, but at the flat area of contact (or lack of it) between base and toerail.
I have the Goiot bases and that’s what I need to replace. I’ve always been concerned over the strength of the aluminum casting, given the potential of a very large shock load being placed on them by having someone thrown against the lifelines. The casting isn’t very thick and quickly developed corrosion.
According to the RigRite web site (http://www.rigrite.com/Hardware/Stanchions_&_Bases/Stanchion_Bases_Alu.html), there’s supposed to be a plastic insert, and mine didn’t have any installed. This may have been an add-on since these were installed or simply someone at Freedom didn’t install them. This would have stopped/slowed the corrosion. Right now I can see cracks down the sides of some of them, which worries me.
I also don’t like holes going down through the deck. Those are just leaks (waiting to happen).
– Geoff