[Public-List] Mast Support Beam

[Wes Gardner via Public-List]

Hi Mike,

That my friend is EXACTLY the answer I wanted to hear!!  I could tell by
the caulk that things hadn't moved much (if at all) since that repair had
been done.

Thank you for verifying my observations.  I do intend to clean up some of
those on-deck fittings - one isn't even used anymore...

Wes

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Mike Lehman <sail_505 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Wes,
>
> You beam looks fine. The compression you are seeing is from before the
> beam was reinforced. Whoever did the aluminum reinforcement plates, didn't
> crank the beam all the way up to take out the deflection. But it won't move
> with those plates in place.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Wes Gardner via Public-List
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2016 12:53 PM
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Subject: [Public-List] Mast Support Beam
>
> Hi All,
>
> My boat is a non-liner boat #196.  The mast support beam has been
> reinforced with aluminum plate on both sides of the beam.  Looking at the
> photo that looks forward, there IS a flat spot in the cabin top.  I’m not
> sure whether I’m concerned about it or not.  In that same photo, there are
> four nuts that hold a fairly substantial pad-eye plate near the base of the
> mast.  You can see the pad eye with a single Harken block in the photo of
> the mast base.  If I eye-ball one against the other, it tells me my mast is
> resting fairly square on the beam (meaning it’s not too far forward or
> aft.)  Also when I “sound” with my plastic hammer, everything is rock solid
> as far as the core is concerned.  The other photo of the reinforcing plate
> looking aft, although it’s not pretty, there are no leaks.
>
> I think I’m content to leave things alone.  Any comments and/or suggestions
> are always welcome.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/1nbw95vyxmuxify/Mast%20Support%20Beam.jpg?dl=0
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nat262in0euf3w/Mast%20Base.jpg?dl=0
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/q8hsrt2m5603vy6/Mast%20Support%20Fwd%20Side.jpg?dl=0
>
>
> Wes #196 Griffin’s Faith
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