[Alberg30] mast for Mr. Phillips

[Stuckintheriggin at aol.com]

John,

I can get the dimensions of the oem mast easyly enough for you as my mast is 
in my driveway.  Thought you might be interested to know that Metalmast 
Marine (also there web address ) can fabricate a new mast very easily and 
reasonable too-between 3 and 4k for you .   I got a quote out of curiosity 
only a month ago.  For that money you'll have to make up the running rigging 
yourself.  I used Rigging only in Fairhaven Ma..  They are Very competitvily 
priced too!!!   A newer mast will be lighter and the extrusion's moments will 
provide greater than or equal to original stregnth.  I don't think the added 
cost of a taper is worth the loss of stregnth.  You can add a backstay 
adjuster like others in the assoc. have ( I've seen the pictures) and 
accomplish very handily all the mast tweaking you'll ever need.  I would 
recomend maintaining the std. mast height, unless you are buying new 
sails...notice here how that wish list keeps growing?   with a new mast it's 
time to start thinking about goodies like internal halyards, new masthead 
with dock for antenna, wind gizmo, light(s) and that @#$% list goes on and 
on.  New boom maybe?  internal rigging for the outhaul and reefing lines 
would be slick.   then there's the rigid vang that you will be sure to want.  
   See  what you started?


kind regards,

 Tony Thorne
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