Adapting Proctor Boom to Dwyer Mast

[talbot]

I purchased an old Proctor boom from a sailer in Portland. No gooseneck on it. Any ideas for adapting a Poctor boom to a Dwyer mast?

It appears from online catalogs that I could get a square Proctor fitting to go into the inboard endcap on the boom. What I don't know is if that fitting will attach onto the external parts of the Dwyer gooseneck assembly. Any thoughts.

I have adapted another non-Dwyer boom to my mast by stuffing an entire Dwyer end-cap-plus gooseneck assembly onto the replacement spar. That trick won't work with the Proctor, which has very different dimensions.

[Phill]

Check out Annapolis Preformance Sailing.
They have a pretty good selection of Seldon (onl Proctor) goosneck parts past and present.

http://www.apsltd.com/c-933-mastboomand ... parts.aspx

Hope this helps.

phill

[talbot]

Thanks. That was the "online catalog" I was referring to in my previous post. It looks like I'll just have to order the part that plugs into the boom cap and see if there is a way to pin it to a Dwyer gooseneck.

By the way, sorry to hear about your broken boom last summer (note on a related post in this forum). Was it during the regatta at Fern Ridge? If it's the day I'm thinking of, I believe we were watching from the little island south of the course.