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I put the mast up for the first time today and found the mast lean to port sharply. Then I noticed the shroud straps....



I am really starting to wonder about this boat. Btw, how high above the cuddly deck is your mast opening? Mine is about three feet up. I fixed it though.

Now there's something you don't see every day! Is there evidence of holes where one (or the other or both) of the tangs may have been previously, and possibly pulled out?

fatjackdurham wrote: Btw, how high above the cuddly deck is your mast opening? Mine is about three feet up. I fixed it though.

What do you mean by "mast opening"? Do you mean the place where the sail is fed into the sail slot? Mine is less than a foot above where the boom stop is. And the boom is about a foot above the deck. Something like that.

And what do you mean you 'fixed' it?

PS: we do wonder about your boat as well.

Yes, the opening where you feed the sail.

Since this boat shows so many signs of serious damage that was repaired, I am guessing she had some kind of accident. I don't think this is the original mast. In fact, I am pretty sure the boat was salvaged, or cobbled together. It reminds me of the boats we had at summer camp. So many had collected over the years, parts, masts, booms came and went. Each year we put them together until we had enough to have sailing class.

I fixed it by drilling out the rivets and re riveting the strap on lower down. I used stainless 3/16th rivets and it was all I could do to pop them.

Stainless rivets really need a beefier tool....

If you don't want to race the boat in a DSA sanctioned race then it being a bit of a "Frankenboat" would not matter, as long as it sails well.

The local lake has an open race and people bring all sorts of "mix&match" boats with their own modifications, all done with second hand parts and third hand sails, at times.

Ha! "Frankenboat" was almost what I named her!!!!

This is a photo of a skydiving plane that used to fly in FL. Cobbled together from three other Twin Otters that had crash damage. Hey, if it's good enough for a plane, why not a boat? <grin>

Later on she got a "proper" paint job ...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3541/349 ... f349_o.jpg

I use to skydive with a pilot that suffered from narcolepsy. Not sure which one I would be more afraid to fly with, a pilot who falls asleep or a pieced together twin otter? Good thing we don't land with either.

No we don't! Not usually anyway. I think that Otter was based at Cross Keys in NJ, but flew in FL during the winter. I was in Deland for 22 years.