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The Masts are down! Napa Valley Marina - Napa California. I made it up the Napa river without running aground riding a 5 knot flood tide. The masts, booms, and bowsprit are now sitting in the yard.…
The Masts are down! Napa Valley Marina - Napa California. I made it up the Napa river without running aground riding a 5 knot flood tide. The masts, booms, and bowsprit are now sitting in the yard. Removing them was easy enough since they had a manbasket to remove the triadic stay. It is a simple matter of removing all the turnbuckles and plucking them from the boat with a crane.
From what I can see the main mast front board has a seem where it has begun to separate all down the length of the mast. The mast is basically splitting apart at the seem. It should (I hope) be a matter of removing that board and expoxying it back using a lot of clamps that I will probably make using scrap wood and threaded rod.
The mizzen is another matter. I can't seem to find any spruce. Redwood, cedar, and fir seem to to my options if I need new would. My mizzen repair of seven years ago, while still holding strong needs to be redone. It seems that moisture got inside at some point and swelled up the mast core I installed and there is a split in one of the original spruce boards.
The bowsprit is in pretty good shape. Just needs some filling here and there and paint. So today - all the hardware comes off, with extensive notes on where to put it back.
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Comment by bob mitchell on August 2, 2011 at 6:07pm
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Wish I could have been there for that ride!!!! On wood for your masts, and I say this with confidence, the number two choice after sitka spruce is douglas fir - which I am sure you will be able to find if you call around. Up in washington state on the olympic peninsula it is cheap - even around port townsend.
While it may cost a little more down your way, it should not be outrageous. It is stronger the sitka, but weighs a little more, so if you are rebuilding your mast you would like the good sitka at the top and the doug fir at the bottom, where weight will not make any difference. I hope you will keep this discussion going, because it is a universal need amoung Newporter owners.
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