nibake wrote:
Looks like I'm going to be joining the club. Uncovered my getaway last night to get ready for a fun weekend of sailing only to find the comptip snapped off. Hobie, can you hear us? This is a serious design flaw. Now I'm in the market for an old H16 mast, upper midwest. I think I will go the route that others have and just hack off the bottom and leave the top. Would it be a bad idea to leave it full length, swapping the mast foot, and extend the shrouds? I have a nice custom made halyard so that won't be an issue.
If you cut the right amount off the bottom then you don't have to mess with the tang or get new shrouds--just bend base a bit, hammer in Getaway mast base, and rivet in. If you don't mess with top you can either not hoist sail all the way to the top (don't think there's any downside from this) or hoist it all the way up and use it that way...I do both depending on wind, just need a longer line for downhaul/cunningham I'm sure the sail shape isn't perfect when all the way up given the main sheet is unchanged but I've never noticed.