I'm considering the addition of bit of fabric as a sun shade over the cockpit on our Eastbay. I recently saw a Sabre 42 that had an interesting setup. His boat had two poles mounted at the stern corners. Sort of like fishing rod holders. I neglected to get a picture or contact info.
The poles had a collar around the bottom that appeared to click into the mounting holes. Not just a friction fit into a rod holder style arrangement. This was nice in that it didn't require any additional downward holding line to keep the pole in place. That and it didn't protrude below anywhere near as deeply as you'd expect from a rod holder mount. The owner's comment was the connection was secure enough to allow leaving the poles in the mounts when underway.
The poles were probably 1" in diameter, maybe 1.25".
Yes, I realize any old generic rod holder mount could be employed but without some sort of positive locking of the pole I'd have to make use of an additional line to pull pressure down from the top to hold the pole/cover down. Had I not seen this locking setup I'd well have resigned myself to having to use that.
I did not see what the pole had on the end.
I google a bit and this may have been it.
GM650 Gunwale Mount | A Burnewiin Boat Accessory.
Anyone seen locking pole mounts like this for a sun shade?