The Severne ones look pretty nice,

or Chinook do one that looks like the pin is once piece CNC machined, looks strong but it's not cheap.

but then as an old mechanic once told me... you can have cheap, you can have fast, you can have reliable... but you can only pick two of those options.

Currently have a prolimit.... and figure I should replace each year....

Streamlined. AAA+. They also have a super strong quick release deckplate and their extensions are bulletproof.
My guess is that you will tear the mast track out of the board before anything else fails.

My Chinook has lasted ages really strong my New NP base seems pretty strong but only had it 6 months. Severne's look good will try one of them next if either of my current ones fails.

Tendons on the other hand been through a good 3 or 4 in the last 2 years must be all the crashing.

Streamlined +1

You don't need to replace the whole base each year just the tendon, but some times its easier to buy a new one rather then trying to pull the old one apart. The streamlined is easy to get appart and it takes the chinook tendon which are easy to come buy and cheaper then the original relacement.

Bit late for me I just had my old one die and the local shop only had Mystics so I bought one of them today.. mind you Ive never broken a uni joint or base in all my years sailing and I'm only a light weight..
It only broke today because dumbo put it in with half the sleeve under the mast like it was supposed to be and the other outside.. broke one pin off and jammed in . Took 3 of us & tying it to a tree to separate it. Won't do that again..

Have a prolimit been in heavy use for 4 years, still going well ( famous last words )

+1 for the chinook machined stainless, had mine for 5 years and only on my 2 tendon, only changed it for piece of mind not breakage.

But you will have to buy the factory tendon as the holes are oversized for the oversized tendon bolts which are also a big plus..

fullmoon said...

Streamlined. AAA+. They also have a super strong quick release deckplate and their extensions are bulletproof.
My guess is that you will tear the mast track out of the board before anything else fails.

I had chinhook and now I have streamlined since last year.
Streamlined forever!!

I prefer chinook us cup single bolt setup with tendon, never had a problem. I have noticed on a few mates bases that the euro pin tends to where out the hole in the ext.

I bent my Streamlined extension. Don't know how, don't know when, I just tried to use it on a small extension the other day and it wouldn't fit into the mast. Couldn't work out why until I saw it looked like a banana. It is hard to see on a photo.



I still like the Streamlined for the same reasons as everyone else above, plus they come in 46cm length. The most I use is 34cm extension, but I like the idea of having the extra length in the mast. I do find the same thing with the pulley alignment and Severne sails as Gazman, though it is quite managable, but not as good.

So, I bought a new one. The new ones have a matt anodising, which I think looks better, not sure if it is more sand resistant though.

Also the new one has only a single rivet on one side holding the cup base onto the tube. The old one had a pin that went all the way through so held on both sides which would have to be stronger, although maybe perhaps not necessary ?

Would be different with a euro-pin I guess.

i thought "super strong euro pin" was an oxymoron?

i've never tried one, but if it's a europin u gotta have, as aus301 said the one-piece chinook one always looks like the goods

this is the chinook one. apparently it's also avaiable with a boge/chinook styled tendon if you want to avoid the slalom styled tendon in this picture

Noticed with the new mystic extension and base its much easier to rig as my older one the sail pulleys were at a different angle to the extension ones so the downhaul line often twisted over itself and jammed. Also i can get the pulley SO close to the deck now compared to the older one ( 90's version).

One problem i did find using Aeron stuff is that the mast extension and the boom rig up different ways, which can get annoying but there not to bad otherwise..