During the Round the Island, one of the heavier members of our crew managed to pull the port grabrail off of the coachroof. The grabrail is a stainless steel tube located in two (aluminium?) end fittings. Both end fittings had fractured. Luckily no-one fell in the water! I need to replace the grabrail and I was wondering whether anyone had been through the same process and had any suggestions?

Thanks,

Paul.
Paul de la Feuillade

No! You're not the first! There was a newsletter article a few years ago and I thought I'd put it in the Tech Handbook but it seems not. It's due to corrosion between the SS bar and the alloy castings that cracks the castings. Glad nobody fell off!

There's a guy at Rossiters who can make that sort of thing and an outfit on the Airfield Ind Est who fixed my parker 21 pulpit when it let go last year.

That's at least 2 in Christchurch so there must be hundreds around the country.

Geoff
Geoff Harwood