help my mast is stuck together,tried two booms,tried lashing both pieces with down haul rope and twisting (broke the rope!).
Any other suggestions welcome.

Not another one

This should be an FAQ topic. I just had a quick look for the articles that have been posted here but I couldn't find them.

Try tapping around the join with a rubber mallet or piece of wood. It's likely jammed by the wedging of sand / grit / salt, and bashing the said particles into smaller pieces often frees it. Also do a search (seabreeze), this topic has been raised a few times before - there's a classic video showing a mast being seperated by using a stout tree and a 4WD.

Edit - beat me to it!

In the referenced thread, aus301, thewindmap and DavMen mentioned taping their masts.
I can tell you that this method really does work. Before I did this, my mast would often
be very hard to seperate. I very nearly had a 1 piece mast. After using the tape method,
my mast has always come apart easy.

Front foot first

Rosey, aus301, thewindmap, DavMen, sharkbiscuit and easty taught me a good lesson.

tape your mast before you go out.
stops sand and crap from getting into the joint.
makes it easy to get undone, and stops the sandpaper effect on the part that goes into the top end, which grinds it down.

Haircut said...

still recommend trying the mother-in-law inside an xd falcon driving off a cliff technique

Seems like a waste of a perfectly good XD

I've found using tape makes it easier to pull the mast out of the sail...( It's also good for hampsters.)

Try taping the joint, or better still, put tape round the joint. This will get the mast apart.

I?v got a bit of a more diffecult problem out here.. My mast was also stuck and after lots of booms and even more people it seperated. But it was the wrong way: the glued part came out and the sandy part is still stuck. So rightnow I have one piece which is cracked and has no funnel anymore (I meen the connecting thing) and I have one part that has a funnel in it stuck with sand. Strange thing is that the mast looks like it shrunk: you can feel exactly where the funnel ends. I sailed it for two months in Brazil and bought it brandnew a week before I went.



Has anybody done this before? Any good ideas to get that thing out? I really need the base (the part that holds the funnel rightnow) because I can only get a new top. That's because it's not really guarantee since I've "put too much forces on the mast which it isn't built for".

Hope someone has a good idea because I'm sick and tired of trying without result.

Like this:

Windxtasy said...

So do you put the tape around the bottom part before you slide the top on, or do you tape around the join of the two when they are together?

'Round the outside when they are together.