Robbieandrew Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 I often have trouble with my mast, especially getting it down, I nearly killed my friend on sunday as I was lowering it as it slipped and fell to the ground. No damage done. So I decided to make some sort of hinge like every other cat in the world has, so that the mast base remains connected to the mast step during raising and lowering. Last week I tried to get the mast base off the mast so i could look at raising and lowering it without the whole mast attached but after 30 years in place it wasn't coming out. So yesterday I came up with the idea of making a cast of my mast base. I got some silicone grease on it and covered it in putty, 1 hour later I had a nice mold. I lined it with glad wrap and filled it with more putty. 1 hour later I had a replica mast base (well, the glad wrap stuffed it a bit but good enough for my purposes). This afternoon in the stinking hot weather I began drilling some aluminium I had lying around to try make a swiveling hinge. I have the holes in the wrong places for now, but as far as I can see it will work once I get the holes in the right place. Hopefully I can finish on saturday when the weather cools down in time to give it a shot with the mast on sunday. Stay tuned... Some photos here - Also, a bit of Calypso action from the weekend here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqLzor23NVs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbieandrew Posted January 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2014 After all that, i think i've decided that a piece of cord will work just as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt15 Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Good effort for trying with the cast idea thou. It looks good for what its worth..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QB2 Posted January 23, 2014 Report Share Posted January 23, 2014 Tie your downhaul to the mast step, tramp rope or dolphin striker to prevent nasty surprises in mast kick up as you only have to worry where the tip is going to land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisso57 Posted March 10, 2014 Report Share Posted March 10, 2014 I spoke with Norman Jones (at Maroochydore) on Saturday. He has a solution worked out.He advertises Cat stuff for sale on Gumtree. If you contact him he may well be prepared to post a description of his method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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