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Originally Posted by DJR-351
The Flopper stoppers look to be of Stainless construction in that pic, I tried to make some for the first fishing boat (cruiser) conversion I did (out of wood ?? yikes) but ended up building a tablenacle mast stepped on deck using a Gaff rig to steady the rolling round bilge it had.
Seems flat bottom cruisers and round bottom cruiser like to roll the most, flat bottom Halvorsen are known for it.
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A lot of flopper stoppers are made of wood and epoxied to make them last so you where on the right track
most trawlers use paravanes (birds or fish) as they work well underway as opposed to a flopper stopper that is mainly used at anchor, most are made out of mild (gal) steel, aluminium or if you have the dollars SS, the one in question went with the cheaper of the three, there's only one here so I'm guessing the other is still out on the sea bed.
Below you can see two rusty paravanes on the top of the outriggers on the trawler berthed next to me, you can also see the top of the recovered trawler behind closed doors ashore, AMSA are crawling all over it.
