wow !

we did it this way twice best idea is to tie a saftey rope in the middle to the piece closest to your car doent fling into it,just in case.

Bustawa, now your home, and if you dont have two booms to help out, a couple of ways to get it free. place it between to supported points at mast base, and mast top, press down (bend the mast at the joint) rotate 90 degrees and do same. You will need to press hard to get the joint to flex. A couple pf turns and it should loosen up. Also poring hot water onto the joint will allow the outer section (female socket) to expand and assist with separation.
When you get it free, buy yourself electrical tape, and tape the joint each session. Or cut an old push bike tube and place a 25mm section over the joint each time you assemble the mast.

If it were me i'd be pouring some near boiling water over the upper section to expand it slightly. And pull quickly...

Only other thing i would try is to block off the top of the mast and put a hose into the bottom sealed with a rag... give it full pressure and try to wiggle the joint with the water pressure in there in the hope that you may promote a leak... not sure if that would work never had to do that... i just use the hot water trick thing... make sure that you dont heat the lower mast tho as you need it as cold as you can get it... Also dont pour water over it for too long coz it will heat thru to the inner pipe too...

WindySimon said...


Only other thing i would try is to block off the top of the mast and put a hose into the bottom sealed with a rag... give it full pressure and try to wiggle the joint with the water pressure in there in the hope that you may promote a leak... not sure if that would work never had to do that... i just use the hot water trick thing... make sure that you dont heat the lower mast tho as you need it as cold as you can get it... Also dont pour water over it for too long coz it will heat thru to the inner pipe too...

This way worked for me, except that I took the bung out of the top and put the water in there. Depends which way around your ferrule is I guess - you want to put water into the end that isn't attached to the ferrule (so top for most masts, bottom for Ezzy/Powerex skinnies).

Water pressure is relentless, once you start shaking the mast with the tap on full you'll see it start to come apart.

the car and anchor method works a treat (done it twice so far).
use tape round the joint now to prevent it happening again.

If ya sail at a beachy and get worked, most times ya mast will stick. Which seems strange coz the ferral tolerances are so small, but sand still gets in! At least these days masts dont snap, they just jam.

Have a role of electrical tape in your sailing box. Put a couple of turns around the join when you rig up. It's the only %100 effective way of stopping this and takes about 5 seconds to do.