pvb
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I was out at a friend's house for supper yesterday, and there in the garden was the wooden boom off his much-loved traditional wooden boat (which has been in restoration for the majority of the 13 years since he bought it!). Anyway, I took a look at it, and was intrigued to see that it tapered at the gooseneck end. This seemed rather odd to me, but my friend insisted that all wooden booms taper at the gooseneck end. He couldn't offer any explanation for this, and agreed with me that it seems to defy mechanical logic. Any ideas??