Cost of new mast and rigging

[paulsellars]

Can anyone give me a rough idea of how much a new mast and standing rigging will be for a 27 foot bermudan sloop?
Also, how much per metre/per mile is road transport for such a boat in the UK?
Thanks for any information.
Paul.

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[cameronke]

Hello Paul
Depends a lot on how much you are prepared to do yourself.

Tree years ago I broke my mast on my 22ft E-Boat. I shopped arround and got my best price from Z Spars (approx ￾0„5900). Trouble was that delivery was about six weeks. If I were to get the mast in its component form ie. length of extrussion and bag full of bits it cost arround ￾0„5600 and I could have it in a few days. They could deliver to Edinburgh but it would have cost another ￾0„5200 carriage to get it to Kip, so I towed my Flying Fifteen to Edinburgh, loaded new mast onto it, and saved myself ￾0„5200. Took me about a week to fit out but you do get the satisfaction of fitting it in exactly the way that you like. Lazy tongs (rivet gun) are essential.

About ￾0„530/stay for standing rigging,

hope this helps, try a pro-rata costing for your boat size.

regards
Cameron

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[rhc21]

No idea on mast and rigging, but I have just been quoted £380 for a back delivery of a 29ft yacht from Ipswich to Solent. Or about £600 for a special delivery. This is for transport only, no lifting, unstepping of mast e.t.c.
Hope this helps.


Richard.

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[mystymike]

What currency are you using. lol

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[amadeus]

I've just replaced the standing rigging on my Parker 275 with Atlantic Spars of Brixham. I did the legwork taking the rig off and driving down to Brixham and saved some money but the total was £510 inc vat. The trickiest bit was removing the forestay from the Rotostay furler which taxed me for a week or two but was actually very easy once I worked out what bits undid where! It remains to be seen how it all goes back together when I launch next week and the mast is raised.

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[Strathglass]

I have just finished building a mast, For a 33ft yacht. Those were my costs.

Kit from Sailspar - £2000 aprox. (Keel stepped, twin spreader, masthead including good modern mast collar)

Electrics - About £200 plus the NASA instrument (Tri/white, VHF ant, NASA wind, spreader light, wire {artic cable for tri}, below deck connecters, self adhesive heat shrink and more internal ducting {pvc pipe}

Standing rigging - About £600 ( all 8mm 1/19 with either swege Gibb Tball or eye at one end and open at the other (10 wires all together including removable storm and babystays)

Bottle screws £600 ( 10 off) all non swege one end toggle other.

Running rigging cost not known as I used reasonably high tech stuff which I already had. Would easily cost over £600.

Tools required - Lazy tongs, various drill bits including a hole saw, centre punch, jig saw with aluminium cutting blade and a length of builders polyprop pipe to pull the hayliards through the mast.

Consumables - Duralec, parafin and a pile of old car tyres as a support bench.

Transport - I built a bolt on extension to a small Erde trailer which enabled me to transport the mast section (50 ft long, legally) behind an escort van and collect it from Brightingsea myself. I still have the piggyback and will be moving the completed mast from the Scotish Highlands to Central Scotland before the end of April.

I realise that your mast will be less expensive than my one but that should give you a feel for the costs.

BTW I bought the boom as a second from ZSparsuk.

Iain

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[cameronke]

Sorry gents, £ comes out funny so will try again

Three years ago I broke my mast on my 22ft E-Boat. I shopped arround and got my best price from Z Spars (approx £900). Trouble was that delivery was about six weeks. If I were to get the mast in its component form ie. length of extrussion and bag full of bits it cost arround £600 and I could have it in a few days. They could deliver to Edinburgh but it would have cost another £200 carriage to get it to Kip, so I towed my Flying Fifteen to Edinburgh, loaded new mast onto it, and saved myself £200. Took me about a week to fit out but you do get the satisfaction of fitting it in exactly the way that you like. Lazy tongs (rivet gun) are essential.

About £30/stay for standing rigging,

Regards


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[ex-Gladys]

Bleeding heck!! We had the SR replaced on Amber, the rigger did all the work and it came to a tad over £400

<hr width=100% size=1>Larry Botheras

Anderson 26 "Amber"