I snuck into balcatta depot again today when the wife wasnt looking, and came out with 2 masts and 4 more sails,

only had a good look at 1 sail so far- it has some tears in the bottom panel but could be patched without too much hassle.

one mast is a one piece in very good nick- and the other is a 2 piece gaastra, but it looks like the previous owner stuffed 1 half inside the other and they are well and truly stuck.

I will have to hide the masts when I see paul next as I have learnt that when you find masts you dont let them go in a hurry, but my pile of sails will need to be unrolled and sorted out soon as its growing a bit unwieldy.
(and I have to admit- I have no idea whats in the pile)

I plan on keeping a couple of sizes of standard windsurfer sails that are in good nick to try out on the oval as an experiment to see how they compare against the recut sails that paul put together for us- the grass surface practically stops the recut sails but from what I have been able to pick up on the net standard sails should have a bit more low down grunt-(possibly better for grass surfaces) but less top speed than recut sails.

Make an adaptor to go from a garden hose onto the end of the mast (you'll need some different diameters of hose, some hose clamps, possibly some plastic plumbing bits). Turn the tap on full, give it some whacks with a rubber hammer all around the outside of the mast, and you should see the inside bit pop out

Has worked for me in the past. Just remember to pull out the plastic bung on the end that you attach the hose to.

if nebbian's and hiko's methods dont work for me- I might have to resort to my old favourite standby of using scientific application of pyro-chemically released force
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in theory it will be early, 7.30AM as i have to deliver and teach a daughter to fix a bike , then go visit mum , then drive back to kal