Those are the original legs on Vee Jay here in Naples covered with white PVC like tape spiral wound.
the 1-1/4 pvc slips inside them ... just an insert to get the top connected and not have the poles just sitting there.
Why would anyone want to saw them off ... when you can have a nice rope hanger so that lines can dry? {took me a year to figure out this $3 "fix" }
Unfortunately for some reason the PO on Vee Jay 2 in Newport sawed off One of them ... I will have to figure out how to somehow replace that one this May and still be strong enough for using as a hand rail.
the insert ... just an upside down U slips in an out with a SS screw where one of the SS legs pop in.
