I was just reading Reuel Parker (and also the Gudgeon Bros) on building
wooden spars
and it is fairly fascinating. I was joking about the CF spars, but that
would be
pretty slick on a gaffer! Are you anticipating having to travel under
non-opening bridges?
btw, x-C27 owner and off-list jokester Vinnie the C. keeps his Landfall
38 in Oriental NC.
...or New Bern...I forget.
tf
David Shaddock wrote:
I'm trying to decide between blowing my budget on carbon masts or building
traditional hollow spruce spars (which are always repairable, but more
likely to NEED repair than carbon). Regardless, I'm hoping to minimize
standing rigging, using forestay, an overhead stay or two, and some running
backstays on the mainmast. With gaff rig sails, the masts can be large
diameter but they're short; often these can be unstayed masts. Just trying
to make life a little easier...
There's a report I saw on a guy who pitchpoled his 56' sloop--and when she
came back upright, his unstayed carbon fibre mast was still there. Jeepers.
Dave Shaddock
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Subject: Re: catalina27-talk: SailoChef's used "Catalina Parts Empourium",
"going out of buisness!"
not THAT'S a project!
Carbon masts, and PBO rigging, I hope.
tf
David Shaddock wrote:
Thanks, Mark. I'm designing a 52' (LOA-just 42' LOD) cold-molded
schooner and will hopefully start construction next fall when we've
sold our house and moved to Oriental, NC. I have access to a lot of
good air-dried cypress, boards and timbers, and will use it for
sheathing, decking, and some of the scantlings.
Dave Shaddock
