The mast on my H22 is broken off approximately 4" from the bottom where it mounts to the attactment foot. How serious will this be if I clean cut where it has broken and reattach it to the base plate? Will this affect the size of the mainsail & jib? Obviously the boom would be 4" lower but can I still use this mast? Thanks, Pete
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Brokey mast
I had an O'Day 17 and the mast was broken on it. I found a piece of aluminum that fit snugly inside of the mast and I put it inside both pieces of the mast. I then pop-rivited the two sections to the inside splint. I am not sure if that will work for your situation but at least it is a suggestion. I don't think that it will affect the size of your main sail as the main extends from the boom to the top of the mast, but I do think that it might affect your jib size. Good luck and I hope that you can get everything straightened out.
I had an O'Day 17 and the mast was broken on it. I found a piece of aluminum that fit snugly inside of the mast and I put it inside both pieces of the mast. I then pop-rivited the two sections to the inside splint. I am not sure if that will work for your situation but at least it is a suggestion. I don't think that it will affect the size of your main sail as the main extends from the boom to the top of the mast, but I do think that it might affect your jib size. Good luck and I hope that you can get everything straightened out.
Rick, I'm not sure..
Rick, I'm not sure about the stays and shrouds as I've never raised the mast as I got this boat last year and I've been redoing just about everything on it. It was just the other day that I realized that the 4" piece of mast attached to the foot was supposed to be part of the main mast. This may sound a bit strange but I accepted the previous owners assurance that the only thing missing was a jib, cushions and some TLC. The way the mast had broken off looked like a relatively clean cut. For months I've focused on the interior and now that it's done I was going to raise the mast to check the rigging. This is my first sailboat and I'll be much wiser the next time. If it is a problem having a shorter mast I think I can have the stainless steel bracket with the eye hole rivited to the bottom of the mast either modified to make it taller thus enabling a kind of splice with more rivits into the main section of the mast. I would also entertain Bad Obsessions suggestion but to also make that stainless steel bracket a few inches taller.
Rick, I'm not sure about the stays and shrouds as I've never raised the mast as I got this boat last year and I've been redoing just about everything on it. It was just the other day that I realized that the 4" piece of mast attached to the foot was supposed to be part of the main mast. This may sound a bit strange but I accepted the previous owners assurance that the only thing missing was a jib, cushions and some TLC. The way the mast had broken off looked like a relatively clean cut. For months I've focused on the interior and now that it's done I was going to raise the mast to check the rigging. This is my first sailboat and I'll be much wiser the next time. If it is a problem having a shorter mast I think I can have the stainless steel bracket with the eye hole rivited to the bottom of the mast either modified to make it taller thus enabling a kind of splice with more rivits into the main section of the mast. I would also entertain Bad Obsessions suggestion but to also make that stainless steel bracket a few inches taller.
Double Masted 22
I can sympathize with you. I have been sailing 3 years and I got my hunter 22 last year and rebuilt the inside. When I raised the mast I found that the boom was rather strange where it attached to the mast. It had a galvanized bracket with an eye bolt attached with a shackle. Needless to say it had a lot of free play. I put a bushing inside the eyebolt and replaced the shackle with a stainless bolt. No free play. The back end was rather strange also. It had only one line attached to the tack going through the rollers and the same line was also the sheet. I added hardware and it now works like it should. Any way a fellow club member was looking at my boat one day and informed by my boom was a mast from some other boat which had been cut off the length. this explained why the end of the boom had only one line. It was the main halyard. We have named the boat Mystery and I now tell people I have a double masted hunter 22.
I can sympathize with you. I have been sailing 3 years and I got my hunter 22 last year and rebuilt the inside. When I raised the mast I found that the boom was rather strange where it attached to the mast. It had a galvanized bracket with an eye bolt attached with a shackle. Needless to say it had a lot of free play. I put a bushing inside the eyebolt and replaced the shackle with a stainless bolt. No free play. The back end was rather strange also. It had only one line attached to the tack going through the rollers and the same line was also the sheet. I added hardware and it now works like it should. Any way a fellow club member was looking at my boat one day and informed by my boom was a mast from some other boat which had been cut off the length. this explained why the end of the boom had only one line. It was the main halyard. We have named the boat Mystery and I now tell people I have a double masted hunter 22.
Stays and jib impacted
As Pete mentioned, the stays will need to be shortened, probably don't have that much adjustment to take out over 4 inches in their length. For the jib, measure the luff (front edge with the hanks on it) and your forestay. If the forestay is 8 inches or so longer than the Jib's luff, you can still use the jib. Fair winds, Tom
As Pete mentioned, the stays will need to be shortened, probably don't have that much adjustment to take out over 4 inches in their length. For the jib, measure the luff (front edge with the hanks on it) and your forestay. If the forestay is 8 inches or so longer than the Jib's luff, you can still use the jib. Fair winds, Tom
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Why not cut off the bad 4+ inches and get a chunk of wood 6X10 inches and 4 to 8 inches tall, glass it to the top of the cabin top, and bolt the mast reciever to it. Get some more height in the cockpit as well. Better than less anyway.
Why not cut off the bad 4+ inches and get a chunk of wood 6X10 inches and 4 to 8 inches tall, glass it to the top of the cabin top, and bolt the mast reciever to it. Get some more height in the cockpit as well. Better than less anyway.
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