On 18 Jan 2005 12:31:23 -0600, Dave wrote:

On 18 Jan 2005 09:00:27 GMT, "Dag Stenberg"
said:

Another thing is, if you leave the mast up, you have to loosen the
stays and shrouds anyway to prevent the stress on the hull from the
shortening of wire in cold, so the additional nuisance of taking the
whole thing out is not so big.

How does the coefficient of expansion of aluminum compare to the coefficient
of expansion of stainless wire?

Thermal coeff of Aluminum is double that of Stainless, in round
numbers

Brian W