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Subject: Re: [worldcruising] Mast winter storage on boat
From: Ed Perkins (nyperk@XXX.XXX)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 20:06:10 EST
Evert,
After lurking on the list for months (and dreaming over dispatches from warm
climates), I can put in my 2 cents on this one...unfortunately, I'm
snowbound and so is my boat.
Here in the Great Lakes, many of us have built three supports generally out
of 2-by-4 lumber so the mast clears the bow and stern pulpits. Mine are
triangular with a center post and a base as wide as feasible. I attached
heavy plywood with a cutout for the mast to the top of each. I put them
where the deck has some sort of vertical support: my anchor locker, my
stern lazarette and above a bulkhead. To figure the height of each support,
I ran a string from bow to stern and measured between it and the deck and
added a bit.
I cover with tarps (cursing at the 20 knot wind because I waited too
long). After tying off the tarps, I tie some plastic jugs filled about
three-quarters the way up with water to a few of the lines crossing the
bottom of the hull. It tends to keep the tarps taught. Don't depend on the
jugs alone to keep the tarps on in any kind of wind.
In a bit of overkill, I also use a double layer of tarps so they rub on each
other and not the boat (something like using two socks in sports to avoid
blisters).
Some marinas in the Great Lakes don't like tarps used, believing winter
gales will cause them to thrash neighboring boats. If its done right, I
don't see a danger.
Then again, a lot of my neighbors leave the mast up, have the boats "shrink
wrapped" or both.
Ed Perkins
S/V Troubadour
Lake Ontario
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evert Volkersz" <evolkersz@XXX.XXX>
To: <worldcruising@XXX.XXX>
Sent: Monday, January 01, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: [worldcruising] Mast winter storage on boat
> Your advice and suggestions are invited on the best way to support the
> mast. My 38' boat is now in my backyard and the 48' mast is lying on the
> pulpit and pushpit railings.
>
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