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October 4, 2016 at 8:18 pm #9975
Oliver Shaw
Moderator<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_7″>We have a moderately new member in my sailing club, with a Mk2 composite boat. </span></p>
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<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_9″>Having looked a couple of weeks ago, with some concern, at his mast while it was down for road towing, when I happened to bump into him today as he was about to launch we got into conversation, and I raised my concerns about the mast.</span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_12″> </span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_15″>The problem is that it appeared to be a badly repaired wooden mast, complete with a number of butt joints, albeit staggered, which appeared to give the spar the bending strength of a spar of only about half its width.</span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_19″> </span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_22″>However it transpires that these joints are not structural; what provides the strength is the aluminium pole up the inside … …</span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_26″> </span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_29″>The story is that he particularly wanted a wooden mast, in keeping with the age of the boat, but they are almost impossible to obtain secondhand, and he tells me that a new one will now cost about £1,000. That is about 300 more than the last price that I saw, if memory serves correctly, but in fairness I think that it may have been back in 2008/9 that I priced them; at any rate it was several years ago, so the increase over those years is not unreasonable.</span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_33″> </span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_36″>So, he made his own mast; starting with that aluminium pole, and then cladding it in timber.</span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_40″> </span></p>
<p id=”yui_3_15_0_1_1475611692306_1814″ style=”margin: 0.1em 0px; padding: 0px; color: #000000; font-family: ‘Helvetica Neue’, Helvetica, Arial, san-serif, Roboto; font-size: 13px;”><span id=”yui_3_15_0_4_1475611692306_43″>An interesting approach, although I am sure it is not in class. But for non-racing that doesn’t actually matter.</span></p>
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