Big mast

[Porthandbuoy]

I've just popped across the Gareloch to have a look at a ferro cutter, and there, in a shed full of boats, I spotted what is probably the tallest wooden mast I've ever seen. Easily 2' dia at the butt and a good 33 paces long (say 100 feet give or take, I've only got short legs). It's been lying in the racks for decades.

The question is; what's it off?

 

[jhr]

In that part of the world, logic suggests an old Fife.

Unless it was a prototype for Mirabella 5? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Mirelle]

a 12 metre? Vim? Sceptre? Sovereign?

 

[Aja]

Could be Sceptre as she now has a brown painted tin stick

Donald

 

[skipperscouse]

i know some of the sceptre crew , i'll ask them if it is theirs.she normally winters at preston.
pete

 

[Forbsie]

Question is - Was it hollow and of so, is it for sale?

 

[copperatsea]

2' at the base seems very big for a mast of 100ft. The main mast on Aile Blanche (1939 C & N) was 102ft long and the base around 16" across. Could it have been a bigger mast that has been cut down? or did they build em extra strong up north! Out of interest what was the ferro cutter you went to look at?

 

[Porthandbuoy]

All dimensions are approximate! It looked like a hollow stick judging by what grain I could see. A wacking great tenon at the foot, hexagonal (maybe octagonal, I didn't count the sides) for about 10 feet, then round and tapering all the way to the top. Massive through bolted fittings.
For sale? Dunno who'd you ask.

 

[Gordonmc]

... in the wrong place.
Did they ever get the bracing sorted out?

 

[Aja]

Only a Guess

> Don't know about their problem from earlier this year. I did, however, see her storming down the East Kyle to Ardlamont in a good easterly this season. Definately her best point of sail!

Donald

 

[contessa26]

Hi - interesting... Whereabouts across the Gareloch? Clynder, or Rosneath maybe? References to a 12-metre? Just for info, Uffa Fox quotes the beautiful 'Marina', an Alfred Mylne designed Twelve built on the Clyde in 1935 as having a mast 83 foot above her deck, 12 inches largest diameter, tapering to 6 inches at her top, hollow spruce. (ref: page 101, Uffa Fox's Second Book, Uffa Fox, 1935.)