Homemade Mast for Beach House

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Marti

Have a place at the beach and would like to place a mast on the property. Have looked in many places to find an old one for sale but to no avail. Has anyone constructed a home-made mast that looks good? If you have, would you share them? AM THANKING YOU IN ADVANCE. Marti.
 
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Dave

Yes

Here's the recipe. Rip som pine 3/4 inch clear (no knots) boards to 3 and 3/4 inches wide. Make 5 strips whatever length you want the mast. Now using West system epoxy coat each board over the full length and then use wood clamps, c-clamps, etc. to hold them all together to cure. You should now have a 3 and 3/4 inch square beam. Mark a distance from one end that you want to leave square. Now take a pencil and mark one third the width of each face from every corner so each face will have two lines the full length breaking each face into thirds. Now take a block plane and plane each corner of the beam until you get to the lines. You will now have an eight sided beam. Now repeat the process and you will have a 16 sided beam. Repeat again and you will have a 32 sided beam. This will be almost round. Now take a belt from a belt sand and pretend you are shining shoes and work it along the length and it will be round. Use a little finishing sandpaper to smooth it. The planing goes quick and it turns round so fast you can't believe it. Now varnish, Cetol, etc. the whole thing and your done. You can cut a slot and install a sheave and pin to use to hoist a flag or just mount a block at the top with a halyard. Good luck Dave
 
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Dave

New Yankee Workshop

Check the New Yankee Workshop website, I saw Norm do a show about building such a mast.
 
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Jeff

Flagpole

I just happened to see this this morning on a site. You could use this flagpole project as a basis for the mast.
 
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