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Reference JOB 32 / Year c. 2009 / Client Various, Fremantle / Discipline Marine — Boatworks

Spinnaker pole bell, brace block and pole car

Three pieces of custom yacht hardware: a pole bell that lets spinnaker poles carry a mast down, a replacement brace block, and a pole car proposed for a sixty-footer.

Spinnaker pole bell

Designed and built to connect spinnaker pole ends to the deck when the poles are used as a support frame for lowering the mast.

Spinnaker brace block

The new block was designed to replace the old one — the before and after are both shown below.

Spinnaker pole car

A proposed design to replace the existing arrangement on a sixty-foot yacht.

Spinnaker pole bell — the design.
01Spinnaker pole bell — the design.
The pole bell in action, carrying the rig down.
02The pole bell in action, carrying the rig down.
Before — the original brace block.
03Before — the original brace block.
The replacement block, designed.
04The replacement block, designed.
After — the new block fitted.
05After — the new block fitted.
Proposed spinnaker pole car for a sixty-foot yacht.
06Proposed spinnaker pole car for a sixty-foot yacht.

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Run the machine

A working model of a machine ME&QC designed and built, rebuilt from the archive and driven by the parameters that actually define it. Drag to orbit; move a slider and the geometry is recomputed.

Interactive · WebGL · loads on demand
Brace block and pole bell Both mechanisms are real — the brace block swivels, the pole bell's plunger retracts. Every dimension is estimated from a single render, so this one is illustrative. The pole car is in the archive but is not modelled, so two of the three pieces are here. Open full screen →

These are demonstrations, not design records. Each is a model built from what the archive contains — drawings where drawings survive, photographs where they do not — and it is a preview of the article, not a drawing of it. Nothing here should be used to order, manufacture or check a part. For dimensions, ask.