1983 Weekender 241 bow plate.

[Printz7777]

Hi new here. I am redoing a 1983 weekender I just purchased. I found alot of rust in the cabin and found this piece rusted. I don't know what it is called. But it is the u hook support and the deck support. Any idea of the name of this? And is it a available piece, or has to be fabricated. Thanks in advance

 

[seasick]

I think it is the bracket that adds strength to the lifting eye on the forward deck. If you don't plan on needing/using a lifting eye, you don't really need the bracket.(you will need something to tie off your anchor line)
Note that the lifting eye is on the top deck and is not the bow eye that you would use to trailer..
You probably would need to have one fabricated.

 

[DennisG01]

Yup. Absolutely ridiculous that Grady would use regular steel for this piece. I had the same thing. As noted, it ties the bow cleat to the bow eye making both stronger. I had a local shop make an exact copy out of stainless.

FYI, even without this, you can use the bow eye to lift the boat as long you have a decent backer plate.

If you decide not to use it, you may want to add a large backer plate to the bow cleat. I'm not at my boat right now and don't recall how well the underside of that bow cleat is reinforced and whether it's good enough to use without that triangle unless the deck is beefed up. A square of 3/4" marine ply or starboard would work. A piece of 1/4" aluminum work, as well.