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One of the strongest cruising sailboats made, the Westsail 32, has a
deck-stepped mast. Survived the Perfect Storm.
On Apr 8, 2007, at 9:23 AM, mgd9121961 wrote:
> Good Day
>
> As we shop near and far for just the right boat for a projected jump
> off date of the fall of 2008, with the intention to do the East Coast
> ICW, Florida Keys, the Islands and possibly mexico and Central
> America I find lots of boats that seem up to the task.
>
> One thing that Ive been looking for is a keel stepped mast to the
> extent that I have refused to look at anything else.
>
> Am I being to picky? are there deck stepped boats out there that I
> should be looking at?
>
> I just got done looking at two listings that for the most part have
> everything else that we are looking for but have deck stepped masts.
>
> I just have this idea in my head that if you have a rigging problem
> in a blow with a deck stepped mast that it is comming down with
> little chance to be able to jury rig something to get to port.
>
> Are my fears justified?
>
> Mike D.
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