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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.

Run the 3D modelA working model of this machine, in the browser, further down this page.

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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Demonstration Interactive model / Runs in The browser / Basis Our own drawings

Run the machine

A working model of a machine we designed and built, rebuilt from our own drawings and driven by the parameters that actually define it. Drag to orbit; move a slider and the geometry is recomputed.

Drag to orbit · move a slider and it rebuilds
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 not modelled, so two of the three pieces are here. Open full screen →

These are demonstrations, not design records. Each is built from what we hold — 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.