Looking for bronze parts for boomed jib

[Benoit Girard]

My old sailboat has a bommed jib. The previous owner lost the gooseneck (or whatever the equivalent is for a boomed jib) and all other hardware that was on it. Basically all I have is the wooden boom.

I am looking for what do I need (bronze pieces needed and where to fix them) in order to restore the boomed jib so that i can use it.

I have searched the web extensively but found nothing.

Can anyone help me on that?

[Dan McCosh]

What you need is a pedestal attachment that hold the boom back from the headstay. This lets the sail flatten when close-hauled, and makes it fuller off the wind. You can fabricate the pedestal from a piece of pipe. A simple pin that swivels on the front of the boom makes the other piece.

[kc8pql]

Or, if you want to stay with bronze, Toplicht has them in three sizes. Search fockbaum here.
Toplicht (http://www.toplicht.de/)

[Dan McCosh]

Forgot to mention bronze pipe, with a bronze floor flange. The catalog stuff looks good. The pedestal I once fabricated from the pipe used a bronze eye-bolt that dropped in the top of the pipe. i put another fitting on the mast that took the same pin, and used the jib-pole as a whisker pole on occasion.

[Andrew Craig-Bennett]

Or mount the boom on the samson post, etc.

Mine actually has a gooseneck on the aft face of the stem; not ideal but it works and is cheap.