I have decided that I probably won't get around to repairing it, so I am now open for offers on my broken mast.

I have listed it on ebay for ease. please follow the link.

Alan

As by now, you have 1/2 a day back at work and proabably bored as anything, tim eto bid on e-bay and dream about playing with expoxy, carbon, home made heat boxes with light bulbs, shrinking tape etc

Stop tempting me!

So how much does Jacko actually want to fix it?

I don't know, I'll ask him, save you all sending him e-mails or phoning him.

The commercial cost is just not viable for some breakages. Jacko advised me thus for my own one last year almost to the day.  My mast could fit into my Ford Focus after the incident.  

I sold the parts as is to a skilled person but have not heard whether it worked out or not.

Perhaps the bits can be used seperately? Is there enough to make a boom? Or is the tube not suitable for that?

I found it very useful for hooking the christmas clips light off the gutters the other day.

Estimate from Jacko - it would be a first class repair, trust me, I can't even see the join in my repaired Chipstow - fyi
 Carbon Mast Repair		                                        Labour	Materials
Proctor repair			
	To repair the two breaks in mast by restoring wall laminate	£427.22	£55.13
	To rebuild missing laminate	                                £102.88	£6.62
	To resin repair sail track as required 	                        £50.00	£50.00
Rigging			
	To refit fixed fittings adjacent break	                        £27.83	£3.31
		                                             Net	£722.99
		                                            Carriage	£0.00
		                                   Total Payable	£722.99
			

Struth! I just seen the pics can I add a meal in at the boat show?

Mags - it would make a lovely couple of king posts and a space frame for your deck-step conversion.

There a thought, if I don't get a decent price I can take that railway sleeper of a king post out of WAPB and replace it with a section.

Lol,  that post is massive isn't it!!!

If that is the cost of the repair the money would be better of spent on a new super spars mast

Would I have enough left over for a boom too?

Because of the internal track, I don't think it would make a very nice boom for a loose footed sail.

A commercial repair would be relatively uneconomic capared to a SuperSpars, you'd probably only be saving £100 to £200 pounds.

However, if you knew what to do and didn't charge yourself labour, you'd have a pretty decent mast for £100 - £200 inc materials

Strewth expensive to repair. I also have a Chipstow in three pieces (think a spreader broke first).
Opted for a new Superspars fully rigged for a little ove £800 plus VAT.

Youve probably already thought of it but the other idea would be to hang on and find another mk1 broken in a slightly different area. Then mate the two better sections together, one simple-clean repair there appears to be too much distress in the fractured area. Or at the very least repair by inserting a new 1mtr length (two joins) Like so many jobs it's often timewise easier two build a new one than phaff about repairing, hence the pricing.
As a ps it's taken me almost as long to prepare/stiffen/refinish mine as it did to build it!

Was that mast broken by load at the top of the mast pulling forwards?

It looks like the forward bend of the mast had the effect of pulling the spreaders apart and splitting the section in two, causing the subsequent divorce of the 3 pieces.

Is this weakness caused by the internal track design?

I believe Alan and Natt used the tried and tested method of wedging the top firmly into the bottom of Chichester Harbour and bouncing the boat around a bit on the other end - worked for me with an alloy jobbie

It was at Whitstable silver tiller, where it was quite windy and the wave were quite big (I'm told unusually for Whitstable). Knowing from bitter experience at Hayling that if we let the mast hit the bottom in waves the mast breaks, we quickly recovered the capsize at the gybe mark only the be knocked over the other way whilst entering the boat - how the hell do you keep a boat head to wind whilst being bounced up and down 2 or 3 feet and trying to climb in I don't know, although I have been advised that the crew hanging off the spin chute might help I haven't tried that.

Unfortnately that second roll took the mast in in the direction of the tide and waves and as now being on the wrong side of the boat no chance to keep the tip from dipping to the sea bed.

I has occured to me that it might have only broken in one place above the spreaders if there was very little rig tension. As we had decided not to fly the spinnaker on the reach I may not have slacken the rig off after the beat. But there you go.

That comment how to keep the boat head to wind when recovering from a capsize really makes me feel my age.  

The drill used to be
-  crew swims bow head to wind.
-  helm rights the boat
-  helm enters via the stern and bails until water below centreboard case
-  crew climbs over side whilst helm balances the boat
-  finish bailing

Sad how these old craft skills get forgotten.

I'm very familiar with the drill, its putting it into practice, its pretty easy when the boat is say a Heron on a flat pond, but when it is a Merlin where the bow is bouncing 3 foot at a time and the helm only weights 8 stone so can't right the boat alone, thats were it gets tricky.

So the helm goes to the bow and the crew gets the boat up?  Hopwever, as a helm, I agree that anything that leaves me in the water for longer is a lousy solution.

£722.99 for a repair im in the wrong buisness .Is that price for a vet as well? Bloody hell.

All broken carbon tube make good washing line post for the garden.

And here's the evidence...

Only 2 days left. Come on the adjustable spreaders & brackets are worth £70 new. Surely some one can take it above the £50 reserve!

Cat, Bag

Well, for less than £50 the adjustable spreaders are going onto WAPB, and I might treat her to a carbon king post, and maybe even a carbon boom, but I'm thinking about the boom bit as I'm not sure about the sail track, I'll have to have a good look at the section..

Change the auction to "carbon king post (3 available)"