[MHml] Uh, about my mast

[Reidar Uthaug]

Larry wrote:
> I'll have to think about fliping the mast over.  It would mean putting a
> lot more holes in a mast that already has lots of holes, including
> entrance turning blocks for jib, screecher and spin halyards, exit slots
> for main, jib, screecher and spin halyards, eight holes for the
> connectors for the double diamonds, new holes for the gooseneck and mast
> rotator.  I'll talk to the rigger
The rigger is the man to talk with Larry. It was at the exit slots for 
halyards these masts (2 as far as I know) have broken. I have been told all 
masts have been reinforced at this point and this will not cause any future 
problems. And everybody should have confident in that as the Reynolds people 
are very competent and not new in this game

All sailors know masts break from time to time, and by different reasons. In 
a race here a couple of years ago 10 boats dismasted, it wasn't criminal 
neither doing it nor talking about it afterwards - we just all learnt a 
little more from it
I will also mention I'm no expert at this but I built my Guegeon wing for my 
first boat, I have been involved in building alumasts as well as carbon 
masts for some of the multihulls here, and I have designed and built carbon 
masts for the 37ft Norcats

Good luck to you Larry, both with your mast project and future racing. And 
remember in a forum like this there will always be people more inerested in 
a barfight than exchanging information and experience; you just have to take 
it with a smile :-)

Regards Reidar flying to Paris and "Salon Nautique" in a few hours :-) :-)