I set the pulpit up on the poop deck and aligned the two forward bases in about the same place relative to the nonskid and the raised portion of the deck where the traveler was. But something didn't seem right; the main part of the rail seemed to be skewed somehow, with the two after bases not lining up properly with the taffrail at all.
After I got up on the deck and eyeballed the pulpit, readjusting it to be square to the boat, as it were, I realized that it was the aft part of the
cockpit that was off kilter. Trying to line the pulpit up by aligning the bases with the nonskid line, which I took directly off the molding at the aft end of the cockpit, meant that the rail would skew. I threw a tape measure on in a couple places to check it out.
Here's the pulpit in the proper position. It's centered and properly aligned with the taffrail--that is, the curve of the pulpit matches the curve of the taffrail and transom profile--and the placement is otherwise visually correct, at least till you look at the nonskid.
![Image](http://www.lackeysailing.com/kaholee/photos/pulpitalignment.jpg)
Here's a measurement to the center of the port base from a fixed point:
![Image](http://www.lackeysailing.com/kaholee/photos/portpulpitmeasure.jpg)
And the corresponding starboard measurement, showing that the bases are the same distance forward of the stern:
![Image](http://www.lackeysailing.com/kaholee/photos/stbpulpitmeasure.jpg)
Here's another measurement, this time to the aft port side of the cockpit molding (traveler step):
![Image](http://www.lackeysailing.com/kaholee/photos/portcoamingmeasure.jpg)
And the starboard, from the corresponding points:
![Image](http://www.lackeysailing.com/kaholee/photos/stbcoamingmeasure.jpg)