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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2011 19:47:51 GMT 10
 the leaning mast. I thought I had completed the refurbishment of 684. Imagine my distress when I put the mast in and saw it listing to starboard. Seems the bearing mounts are not true in the boat and when it was redecked, everything is out of wack. I have ten mm difference in measurements from edge of deck bearing to gunwhale reference point. Back to the drawing board - I have finally found a use for that trigonometry I studied 40myears ago. keep your fingers crossed
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Post by Bilbo684 on Nov 19, 2011 19:37:30 GMT 10
;)Mast is nearly back in column. A bit of surgery to deck bearing to centralise and replacing the bottom bearing with the original offset!!! ( now you notice) one has brought the mast back to vertical. Probably will not go quite so well on Starboard tack now, but port tack will be a lot better. a lesson well learnt.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2011 6:01:55 GMT 10
Probably a bit late to add this but we used to deliberately wind the mast over to starboard a bit (shrouds and unimportant stuff like that) so we would never get burned at the start. Mind you if you turned up at a port tack biased racetrack its a bit easier to wind up some shrouds than move the deck.
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Post by ixforese on Jul 5, 2019 20:47:03 GMT 10
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the leaning mast.