RE: catalina27-talk: boom connection

[McCance/Robinson]

The original fitting on my '78 was sliding, on the new mast delivered 
from La Fiell (SP?) in 2004 it was welded to the mast and MUCH more 
substantial....
(As were the airfoil spreaders on welded aluminum castings)
--
Dave Robinson
Peregrine
Catalina 27 #3695
1978 Standard Rig, Traditional Interior, A4, Tiller
Jacksons Point, Ontario
http://www.neptune.on.ca/~canoe/
"Cruising has two pleasures.
One is to go out in wider waters from a sheltered place.
The other is to go into a sheltered place from wider waters".
-Howard Bloomfield