BEWARE!

527 and 528 and quite possibly all Stealth prior to around 540 will not have the acetyl inserts built in.

On my boat the solution was these:




They are plastic plasterboard (wallboard) inserts and I have epoxied them into the deck area. The straps are then simply screwed in using S/S 3mm self tappers.

Great foot strap information! I'll figure a way to add backing, even if I have to fish it in from the drain holes!

One way I am considering is to drill a hole, use an alan wrench to rout out the foam, and fill that with expoxied filler. Then use a plastic drywall toggle bolt that will span a portion of this filled area. Glenn Brown suggested this.

I guess that I could take a piece of backing that would be longer than the footstrap and narrower than the drain holes and pull it into position with strings. I could pre coat it with a bead of glue and tension the strings as a glue clamp. I could drill and tap holes, even before fishing it into position.

Here is a list of owners of Stealths that I have seen on Catsailor Forum:
scooby_simon 553
waynemarlow
MarkP
Jalani (John Alani) GBR527
John_Pierce
hobiegary
davidtugwell (Datchet)
MarkP (Mark Presdee) (Mumbles) GBR555
George_Malloch (Scotland)
johnfullerton (Geneva, Switzerland) 551
WesternJeff (South West UK) 545
Dermot (Dermot Mangan) (Dublin, Ireland)

Paul Warren (Datchet) used to own one

GARY

Hi

I have Stealth 556 based in the UK Midlands. I sail on Rutland Water the largest man made lake in Europe. Great sail this weekend at Bala in Wales. Winds 3knts gusting 33knts. Some effort needed.

John,

I hear that Bala was "fun". Should see you at Rutland in a few weeks time.

'Fraid I'm a Spitfire Gary. (and a Shadow on order). There is one Stealth in Northern Ireland.

I have 502 which gets sailed at Port Edgar in Scotland, more or less underneath the Forth Bridges.

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scooby_simon 553
waynemarlow

Jalani (527 John Alani)
John_Pierce (aka john_p)
hobiegary (Gary) (528 Los Angeles, USA)
davidtugwell (Datchet)
MarkP (Mark Presdee) (555 Mumbles)

johnfullerton (551 Geneva, Switzerland)
WesternJeff (545 South West UK)
sssh (John Terry) (556 UK Midlands, Rutland Water)
George_Malloch (502 Port Edgar in Scotland)
Alan_T (Alan Thomas) (North Kent England)

aaronyoung (London, UK) - Now sailing Tornado

Its a Stealth , albeit 18 with enlarged f16 rig (not much )