Chisel and hammer

I would not be using it too far offshore now, there could be micro cracking all around the ferrule so it's days are numbered.
Lots of booms next time, not shed tools

Ha ha... Caption Comp:

How many kitesurfers does it take to rig a sail?

Yer we tried the booms but didn't work we also tied hot water on the out peice but wouldnt work either.

da vecta said...

Ekkie once got a mast apart with me by bending it one way to expose a tiny gap then put a thin blade or coin in the gap then bend it the opposite side and then put a slightly wider coin in the other side. Then bend it the other way and so on and on. It worked a treat.

That's how I opened the replacement spring for the garage door

Takes a lot of tension to open up to fit

Yep. Did this and took it to the store. They could not get it apart so Severne replaced it with a new one under warrantee.

More importantly, who won the tug-of-war?

Mark _australia said...

Chisel and hammer

I would not be using it too far offshore now, there could be micro cracking all around the ferrule so it's days are numbered.
Lots of booms next time, not shed tools

How many booms ? at one stage we had three booms and eight guys on that thing.

Mark _australia said...



I still can't believe 3 booms per side, with a non slip between boom and mast, plus warming or cooling the joint, plus some bouncing, can't get a mast apart. Never seen it.

More bouncing and more booms. Water to cool it down as they come apart.

Somebody needs to measure the maximum torque that one quality* boom applies compared to one Clown twisting by hand.

Anybody with a torque wrench could set up a quick jig and report back?

I'm guessing one boom beats 8 blokes.


*must not slip and ignoring any damage.

Ha ha, in the first week of november we call that the "sandy point shuffle", somebody (usually more than 1) always jams their mast :)

I managed to get one a apart using this contraption. The wet tea towel provided greater grip. I rotated one half of the mast with the boom and gradually increased the hold of the other half by tensioning the straps as required.

Next step: telescopic masts!

I suspect masts (with a grain(s) of sand) are the same as 2 white 20L buckets that are stuck together. You have to "break the seal" in the join to get them apart easily.
I had a mast stuck like this & it was really stuck.
A mate of mine put it under the water in the lake we were sailing in (about 30cm deep). I stood on the narrow (top) end. He had the bottom end and shook the mast up and down vigorously and pulled on it every so often as he shook.
We had it apart in about 1 minute with very little effort.
I was gobsmacked (I tape the join every time now and have never had it stuck since).
He commented that he had seen 4 people on each end of a mast and they still didn't get it apart.
Da vecta's method is similar in his post 6 from the top of this topic.
Try it next time and you will be surprised how easy it is.

qldnacra said...

jamdfingr said...

Next step: telescopic masts!

And i'm sure you could pull heaps of downhaul tension on a telescopic mast.

Just make it extend the other way, then the downhaul can't collapse it.