: I love the custom fittings. How did you go about making those?

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The fittings were made in two parts. A hardwood ring, mine are cherry, I think and a block of secondary wood.

Wood block:

I started by using a scoup to carve out the bowl shape. It needs to be deep enough to thread the rigging line though when complete. I did the carving before I cut the squares from the board stock, bit safer and more leverage for the carving bit. Maybe this could be
done with a wide rounded router bit...but that is hindsight. A shallow grove is cut on the table saw the length of the board stock to receive steel pin.
The blocks are cut into squares, larger then the rings will be. I beveled the bottom of the blocks to avoid edges in the boat.

Rings:

This took me some time to figure out how to get perfectly concentric circles. The rings need to be as thick as your glassed and epoxied hull thickness.

step 1: With a hole saw that has an inner diameter of your desired outer diameter of the finished rings, cut into material but only cut 1/2 way
through.

step 2: drill out the inner circle centering within the cut made by the hole saw.

step 3: complete the outer circle with the hole saw.

Assembly:

coat all surfaces with epoxy

I used stainless steel rods. The rods fit into the shallow grove in the block and extend past the rings. the Exended ends allows the rope's force to pull on the boat and not on the ring.

You'll need to cut holes in the boat hull...after is it all glasses. (this is the scary part) The fillings are installed from within.

Note, when I posted these years ago, there were comments about deck rigging should not be so close to the deck. That the rope should be installed proud
of the deck to make it easier to grab while in the water. I use my boat on calm water so I am not concerned, but I thought I would share.

I can share better quality images if you like.

Cheers