"H the K (I post with a Mac)" wrote in message
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On 1/30/10 9:05 AM, Frogwatch wrote:

it.
I had thought my boat was in good condition except for needing bottom
paint however, if you spend time aboard you find things......BAD
things. I thoroughly inspected the mast shroud connections to the
hull a couple years ago and thought they were solid. This morn when I
woke up, looked up and saw an indentation in the wood around the
stainlesss plate attaching the main starboard shroud to the bulkhead.
I pressed it. HOLY ****, ROT. Yikes. Gotta be fixed before any
significant sailing.


You should consider hanging up your shrouds before your family finds it
necessary to put you in a shroud of a different kind. It seems like just
about every time you go out in that boat, something significant fails on
you. It seems more than an aging boat, too...it seems like a boat on which
maintenance is ignored until something significant happens or is
discovered.

Were you not about to send your daughter and her boyfriend out to the
Bahamas in that boat? It would have been interesting for them if the mast
carrying full sails had collapsed and fallen into the water.


Or on someones head, although that would probably require the forestay to
let go.
Happened to us on a Mirage 33 during a Wednesday night club race. Sure was
scary for a bit...it missed the owners girlfriend and me by about a foot.