Picture of mast pre-bend on Hunter 40.5

[smokey73]

I think I have the pre-bend correct on my 1994 Hunter 40.5. Do any of you fellow 40.5 owners have a good picture of their mast that would show your Rake and Pre-Bend? Just seems a lot to me.

Here is a picture of mine. The first pic is looking up the mast. The second shows the boat from the beam. The boat is the furthest out with a blue stak-pak and blue furled genoa is mine. Any comments on rake or pre-bend would be appreciated.

 

[PaulK]

Looks like a nice, pretty even curve that should be good for keeping the main's draft forward. Not excessive. Not what you'd want with a r/f main, but that's not what you have. Hard to judge rake from the photos provided.

 

[JamesG161]

Visual observation of yours, looks about right.

I checked my prebend per my Boat manual.
I used a plumb bob to check it and mine was good.

Shown below.

I show the pre-bend on my boat. I added two new graphic lines on the fore side of my mast edge (purple sloped and orange vertical). The gap is the pre-bend and note the max bend is where the two lines cross. The purple bend line is "cheated" to aft to compensate for the un-shown mast head (≈20' higher).

Right where maximum force is applied by the boom in high winds.

Jim...

 

[Rick D]

I seem to recall 4" bend, but I'd true that up. Here are a couple of photos sort of showing the bend and rake on my 40.5.

 

[smokey73]

Thanks @Rick D Looks about the same as mine.