Mast Boot Thing, Repair Ideas Please

[rudolph_hart]

The foresail sheets chafed a small hole through the mast boot/collar on my Dehler 35. My 'temporary' repair, using white Boatlife (butyl rubber?) lasted 4 years until I pulled the mast to replace standing rigging, when I fitted a 'pukkah' new collar from Selden (£20 -ish, IIRC).

Hope this helps.

 

[Adamastor]

I made one which lasted about 10 years with an inner-tube and cable-ties [black ones] and some vulcanising compound that they plug tyres with. It was a bit of a palaver to get the tapered "cone" right, but with some sharp scissors I got it just fine, then turned the cone apex down and cable-tied it in place on the mast in the are that would become the inside of the cone. Then the rest was easy: turn the cone down over the mast-partner/deck-tube and cable-tie to satisfactory tightness...

 

[Cariadco]

Mast Boot

Don't bother trying to repair it, remove the whole thing and take it to your local sailmaker. They'll cut another another out of some plastic canvas matereal.
Use silicon to seal it on it's inside to the mast and the ring, and amalgamating tape on it's outside on top and to the ring.
I tried everything to repair mine in position and nothing worked well. Replacement is the only answer.
Regards.

 

[mattnj]

Don't bother trying to repair it, remove the whole thing and take it to your local sailmaker. They'll cut another another out of some plastic canvas matereal.
Use silicon to seal it on it's inside to the mast and the ring, and amalgamating tape on it's outside on top and to the ring.
I tried everything to repair mine in position and nothing worked well. Replacement is the only answer.
Regards.

yes, will do, but need to step the mast, maybe next year...or year after...

 

[red beard]

put a dolop of fernox lsx (get it in b&q plumbing dept) over any holes or splits in the rubber will last for years, would seal around the top edge and those two holes in the picture as well just to be sure