[Public-list] Mast base

[Gordon Laco]

Hi there - 

You could use the existing broken one as a pattern to have a new alum or
bronze one cast.  If you can't find a finished on I can recommend people off
list  who could do that for you.

Cheers - Gordon #426 Surprise







> 
>  My  Alberg  30  mast  base  is cracked and unweldable/unfixable.
> Does
>  anyone know where I might buy/get a new mast base or have one made?
> 
>  Thanks, Irene   [1]i_hoffman at hotmail.com
>  "Mystique" #26
> 
> 
> Irene,
> 
> My mast step was also cracked and broken and could not be welded.  I had
> a machine shop cut the shoe out of the broken mast step and tap it for
> two bolts to a stainless steel plate that was cut to the same size as
> the original mast step.  The plate was actually two pieces of 1/8 inch
> plate, welded together, the bottom one of which had the sides cut and
> angled upward at 45 degrees and punched with holes to provide an
> attachment points for blocks and the vang. Before the shoe was bolted to
> the plates it was bedded in 3M 5200. The shoe now sticks about a quarter
> inch further into the mast so the hole for the bolt through the base of
> the mast does not line up. I did not drill a new hole because I do not
> think that little bolt is going to hold the mast if it is going over.
> I've had no problem with it for over five years.  I also put the
> obligatory coin in a big gob of silicone in the mast step to pay for
> fair winds.
> 
> Ross Horton
> Delphi, 40
> 
> 
> 
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