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2547
Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1151 |
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Topic: Have you ever snapped, or bent beyond repair? Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 4:26pm |
Given how rough and wild it is out there I was wondering if you had ever snapped a mast?
Give the gory details if you like? I have ... dug it in the seabed whilst inverted ...
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Rupert
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 4:57pm |
More than one, I'm sad to say. Snapped the odd boom or 2 as well.
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Firefly 2324, Puffin 229, Minisail 3446 Mirror 70686
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gordon1277
Really should get out more Joined: 24 Mar 10 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 665 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 4:58pm |
Yes 2 505 masts were written off within a month! not popular with my insurance company.
First one the forestay snapped and the mast went at desk level. I was on the wire and we were hardening up. Second one capsized coming ashore at Eastbourne in no wind only for a freak wave to capsize the boat onto the beach mast first! |
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turnturtle
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 5:06pm |
2 laser top sections, 1 RS600 and 2 windsurf masts...
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tgruitt
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 5:09pm |
National 12 + boom, Merlin Rocket, Cherub and 12ft Skiff going upwind.
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Needs to sail more...
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JimC
Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6649 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 5:12pm |
Not a mast, but two mast stumps, and at least one boom as far as I can recall.
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salmon80
Posting king Joined: 29 Nov 10 Online Status: Offline Posts: 119 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 5:47pm |
Lightning mast, top section of carbon cracked and bottom alloy bent ;(
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piglet
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 6:42pm |
The boy has done 3 Topper bottom sections, all off the start line as I recall.
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sawman
Far too distracted from work Joined: 04 May 11 Online Status: Offline Posts: 205 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 6:45pm |
snapped a kestrel mast, in a squall on the Blackwater - pretty much the whole fleet was flattened,
also more than one laser topsection |
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Emilio Castelli
Newbie Joined: 22 Nov 11 Location: Sebastopol, Ca Online Status: Offline Posts: 20 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 18 Nov 15 at 6:47pm |
Yep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmC2UyCQJO8 E |
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