Building Carbon Stanchion Sockets

A deep dive into stanchion sockets, stanchions and preferred materials. This week we are looking at everything you need to know (or at least giving you a good nudge to investigate further) about lifelines, stanchions and how to connect it all correctly and SAFELY to your boat. Stanchions are a safety feature so its not a matter of finding the cheapest solution - this one is finding the safest and most reliable. We hope this information will help those of you wanting to some techy info on what you should be looking for. Heaps of information on this one and we will be adding more to our website https://youngbarnacles.com/making-composite-stanchion-sockets/ and some good stuff on our members page www.youngbarnacles.com if you want to dig deeper into the topic. We used carbon tube, release wax and resins from @easycompositestv European division. https://www.easycomposites.eu/ References https://www.sailing.org https://www.iso.org/standards.html ISO 15085:2024(en) Small craft - Protection from falling overboard and means of reboarding Fred Barrett Yacht Design https://fb-yd.com/ Brett Van Munster https://vanmunsterboats.com/ Matthew Smith https://csparnz.com/ More information on our stanchions can be found on our website below https://youngbarnacles.com MUSIC https://www.youtube.com/