by GreenLake » Mon Mar 29, 2021 4:13 am
Rot resistance is secondary when you seal wood with epoxy (just as long as you also seal any holes you drill!).
I could imaging a short length of not too thin walled aluminum angle stock would work well. Or even round. It's not much much harder to drill than wood.
Whatever is strong enough to distribute the load. The laminate is pretty strong at the bow, so you don't have to distribute the load too far.
Some boats have an angle iron (or other metal) that forms an L into which both the bow eye and the stem fitting get screwed to make sure the forestay can't lift the foredeck.
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