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This ABYC standard are a guide for the selection, design, construction, and installation of reboarding means, ladders, handhold devices, grab rails, rails, lifelines, and slip resistant surfaces.
[American Boat & Yacht Council, Edgewater, MD, USA]
Excellent tour through the varieties of "inox." Includes downloadable reference manual.
[Australian Stainless Steel Development Association, Australia]
How to use a hand-operated swaging tool to save money by installing lifelines yourself. Half-page with photos.
[Sail Magazine, April 2002]
Those nice looking wooden handrails can become dangerous with hidden rot. The author tells how to find ready-made replacements or fabricate new ones yourself. Photos and diagrams.
[SailNet, 12 April 2004]
How to remove and replace your wooden grabrails. Covers steam bending and laminating, installation, and coating. Lots of photos.
[San Juan 23 Internet Fleet, USA]
Lifeline turnbuckles pelican hooks, gate eyes, toggles, and adjusters.
[Hayn Enterprises, LLC, Rocky Hill, CT, USA]
Stainless steel, lifeline turnbuckles, gate eyes, and pelican hooks for wire from one-eighth to one-quarter inch.
[ABI / Precision Lighting, Petaluma, CA, USA]
Elastic harness tether. Retracts from 2 to 1 meter, with overload indicator, double action safety hook and quick opening snap shackle. Meets ORC regulations
[Wichard S.A., Thiers, France]
Standard and custom stanchions, gates, and bases in stainless steel.
[Garhauer Marine Corporation, Upland, CA, USA]
Surprising how many different pieces of hardware go around the edges of your boat: stanchions and lifelines, netting and gates, wire fittings and turnbuckles, cable cradles, antenna mounts, and more. Johnson makes them all.
[C. Sherman Johnson Co., Inc., East Haddam, CT, USA]
The flush foredeck that seemed so ideal for sunbathing when it was level transforms into a slick slab of tilted ice when the boat rolls.
Daniel Spurr
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