Beefing up foredeck

[bilbo]

Stealing a theme from a post by NickB...
"If you are fitting a removeable inner forestay then I believe.... You will have to ensure that the through-deck fitting is able to stand the considerable forces involved."

Right. Agreed. And I'm in process of doing that. Or planning to do just that....
Of those who have done such a thing, what 'zackly did you do re said 'beefing up' and was it enough?

[Gardenshed]

there is a u-bolt on my foredeck, just aft of the chain locker. I strengthened it to take the load of an inner forestay by fabricating a s/steel "L" shaped bracket. the long leg of the L is bolted to the bulkhead and then the u bolt is bolted through the aft facing shorter leg of the L. this spreads the load on the deck (like a much larger washer) and transfers the load to the bulkhead.
if you're up near Craobh sometime, I can show it to you

[wully]

On a previous boat there was an ‘L’ shaped bracket shaped to fit the anchor locker rear bulkhead on the long arm of the ‘L’ and through bolted to it. The short arm fitted under the deck and had a hole drilled through it. A hefty Eye Bolt came through the deck and through the ‘L’ bracket. The removable inner forestry was clipped to this and tensioned with a large lever type thing.
On the spreader was a slotted holder for the fore stay when it wasn’t in use to stop it flopping around . The lever thing was tied off to a coach roof handrail.

[bilbo]

Thanks for replies, all.

This stay will be permanently mounted ( I hope! ) with a furler carrying a 95% Solent-type jib. A 'slutter' sort of 'cutter' rig.

I have a hefty Wichard U-bolt which I hope to fit through the foredeck. The question is 'can I fit it far enough forward to utilise the SEMI-bulkhead which once stored the anchor chain?' That would be beefed-up with glass/epoxy, if so.

If not, I'll need to craft and mount a 'deckbeam' of sorts, muchly reinforced with carbon and this carried down onto the hull sides akin to 'knees', to spread the load down.

I'd rather avoid the angled chain/highfield lever or Dyneema strop dividing the berth(s), if I can.