Articles

Selecting The Right Sized Anchor

There are many types and styles of anchor available today, and over recent years a number of iterations and developments have taken place to optimise anchor holding capacity for a given weight of anchor, and to optimise the ability of an anchor to set.

Types Of Stainless Steel A2 vs A4 or 304 vs 316

At Boat Fittings the vast majority of our stainless steel fasteners (nuts, bolts and washers) as well as our shackles, cleats hinges and deck fittings are 316 (sometimes called A4) and more generally known as Marine Grade Stainless Steel.

Thread And Bolt Selection

At Boat Fittings we stock a wide variety of threaded fasteners. All of our threaded fasteners are standard metric (which means the metric coarse thread). In general when you buy metric nuts and bolts they are of the coarse thread unless otherwise stated, and they suit the vast majority of applications

Checks For Your Boat Rigging

Checking and maintenance of a boats rig is probably in most boat owner’s minds, but how often do we actually get around to performing those important checks.

Huge range of A4/316 marine stainless boat fixtures and fittings, all fully-dimensioned for your selection

Articles

Selecting The Right Sized Anchor

Types Of Stainless Steel A2 vs A4 or 304 vs 316

Thread And Bolt Selection

Checks For Your Boat Rigging

Huge range of A4/316 marine stainless boat fixtures
and fittings, all fully-dimensioned for your selection