Welcome to the site. For the uninitiated nothern brothers that looks like a 4x4 mast post to me. LOL! Thumbs up on the ingenuity. The way it is rigged to the anchor pulpit looks functional too. That V-20 has a shrimp boat for a momma, Ray Hunt was the daddy...
Thanks! That pedigree sounds about right!
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