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lattice mast
Hello NG
i'm new to this group, so first of all "hello everybody". I'm the owner off a Show 38 sailyacht which lays in the mediterranean sea, exactly in sardegna. This boat is a pretty good sailboat with a good displacement but not the boat to live on it and not the one to cross the oceans. So i'm planning to build a sailboat by my own in the near future, i'm a bit experienced in working with my hands. One point that i have seen are lattice masts. I'm very excited about this concept and would like to know some more about this kind of masts. Can somebody point me to some (more) infos about lattice masts for boats. I wasn't very successfull with google, plenty of links for antenna masts and stuff like that, but not much about boats. Thanks very much for any hints. Cheers Renato Testa |
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:44:59 +0000, Renato Testa
wrote: i'm new to this group, so first of all "hello everybody". I'm the owner off a Show 38 sailyacht which lays in the mediterranean sea, exactly in sardegna. This boat is a pretty good sailboat with a good displacement but not the boat to live on it and not the one to cross the oceans. So i'm planning to build a sailboat by my own in the near future, i'm a bit experienced in working with my hands. One point that i have seen are lattice masts. I'm very excited about this concept and would like to know some more about this kind of masts. Can somebody point me to some (more) infos about lattice masts for boats. I wasn't very successfull with google, plenty of links for antenna masts and stuff like that, but not much about boats. Thanks very much for any hints. ===================================== There was a 40 foot racing sloop on Long Island Sound named "Barrister" that made 2 or 3 attempts at a lattice mast back in the late 1980s. They were dismasted within a short time after every attempt and eventually went back to a conventional spar. If I had to guess at the cause of failure it would probably be a lack of torsional stiffness. The best of the lightweight, hi tech masts nowadays are carbon fiber cured in an autoclave. |
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Hello,
"Renato Testa" wrote One point that i have seen are lattice masts. I'm very excited about this concept and would like to know some more about this kind of masts. Can somebody point me to some (more) infos about lattice masts for boats. I wasn't very successfull with google, plenty of links for antenna masts and stuff like that, but not much about boats. the only site I do know is in german, but it's complete and full of information: http://gittermast.beti.de Greetings from Germany Guenter. |
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