Slahm
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2001 Grand Soleil 46.3
Ok, I have a new 20 meter keel stepped mast to install, but upon delivery, I find the mast maker did not send (and does not make) a deck collar for this mast profile at all. I am baffled by this, but I need to figure out the best way to attach my old modified, or newly created(if needed) deck collar. The new mast is about 1cm bigger and so I will need to widen the old deck collar or fabricate something new.
I am trying to keep roughly with the Sparcraft system I had, which had the deck collar, urethane wedge, and top piece to tighten it all together.
The problem I have is what to use in the middle for the wedge. The closest thing here is tubes of black urethane, because there is no two part I can find anywhere near, and I cannot fly with two part urethane, so it is months away. There is also 2 part epoxy and 2 part fibreglass resin, but I am not sure about using something that is completely hard, as then I cannot remove the mast in the future, at least without crazy troubles.
Or I guess I can go wooden wedges, but that seems crazy to me on a modern 20 meter mast. But what do I really know?
I know if I follow their advice and skip the collar entirely, I will have no place to tie down my many lines that enter the mast. Even more stuff to drill into my deck?
Advice? I hope
How do I install this deck collar people? I'm at a bit of a loss.
Pictures are the OLD collar and urethane(I think) wedge, I cannot reuse the wedge obviously, wrong profile, probably can widen the actual metal collar.
Ok, I have a new 20 meter keel stepped mast to install, but upon delivery, I find the mast maker did not send (and does not make) a deck collar for this mast profile at all. I am baffled by this, but I need to figure out the best way to attach my old modified, or newly created(if needed) deck collar. The new mast is about 1cm bigger and so I will need to widen the old deck collar or fabricate something new.
I am trying to keep roughly with the Sparcraft system I had, which had the deck collar, urethane wedge, and top piece to tighten it all together.
The problem I have is what to use in the middle for the wedge. The closest thing here is tubes of black urethane, because there is no two part I can find anywhere near, and I cannot fly with two part urethane, so it is months away. There is also 2 part epoxy and 2 part fibreglass resin, but I am not sure about using something that is completely hard, as then I cannot remove the mast in the future, at least without crazy troubles.
Or I guess I can go wooden wedges, but that seems crazy to me on a modern 20 meter mast. But what do I really know?
I know if I follow their advice and skip the collar entirely, I will have no place to tie down my many lines that enter the mast. Even more stuff to drill into my deck?
Advice? I hope
How do I install this deck collar people? I'm at a bit of a loss.Pictures are the OLD collar and urethane(I think) wedge, I cannot reuse the wedge obviously, wrong profile, probably can widen the actual metal collar.
