Next message: Ken James: "[world-cruising] Re: boat shopping"
An advantage of a deck stepped mast is that there is less leakage into the
boat. Another is that if the shrouds break the whole mast fall overboard.
With a keel stepped mast the mast can break of at deck level and the
remaining section inside the boat if still partly attached can swing around
and trash up a lot of joinery.
I have both options occur and I prefer the former.
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: "ron snyder" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: [world-cruising] boat shopping
> This is a good option. When I was looking for a
> cruiser, this was a major want but after a lot of
> research I needed to make some sacrifices and other
> wants were more important to my sailing safty than
> this one item. Ron Snyder
> --- Bryan Genez <> wrote:
>
> > On 4/8/07, mgd9121961 <> wrote:
> > >
> > > 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, the only person who needs to be justified is
> > you. Anecdotal
> > information seems to suggest that rigging failure on
> > a deck stepped mast
> > will usually result in the entire spar being lost,
> > while a keel-stepped mast
> > usually leaves a stub that can support a jury rig.
> > That said, the portion
> > of the keel-stepped mast that breaks free is usually
> > a sharp dagger trying
> > to punch holes in your hull as rapidly as possible.
> >
> > There's no perfect solution. There are world
> > cruisers with deck-stepped
> > masts, just as there are daysailors with
> > keel-stepped masts.
> >
> > That said, there's also an extremely small chance
> > you'll ever find yourself
> > in those conditions. How much effort do you want to
> > spend preparing for
> > them? Only you know.
> >
> > --
> > Best,
> > Bryan Genez
> > "Capella" V40-158
> > New Bern, NC
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been
> > removed]
> >
> >
>
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