S2E57 Mistakes Fixed on my $200 Mast (28 feet) Making it Bulletproof Part 3

[@tomwaite4594]

What a winning combination ....junk rig and a forgiving flexible solid wood mast.Far superior to a aluminum spar which will tip the scales greater than your 200 dollar spar. Also fixable/ replaceable any where in the world....Try getting a tig welder in Pango Pango when you need one. As always a great video

[@fredbalster3100]

The weight and flex could be at the magic point. You could make the mast the same diameter from the deck to the hull to ease installation.

[@brianmalady1190]

Interesting thanks

[@superwag634]

Good info. Hopefully the mast stiffness matches that required by the keel. I can do the calcs but you probably have someone already

[@curtishill6490]

Hello Alan👍I like watching and learning how to do this and other things you've done! Thank you for sharing your journey😁well wishes and health to you and Mrs Rover🙏

[@tonykazz2779]

Nice piece of work ! I'm noticing you sitting on the mast suspended between two Saw Horses , which suggests to me that the Horses need to be at a height optimum for the worker. Hmm Thank you for demonstrating all these wonderful techniques. Tony in Florida where we don't own warm jackets.

[@RoversAdventure]

I meant to get you this info. The saw horses are 22" tall and the legs splay out about 19". I have 4 of them and they are perfect for putting your knee on whilst cutting. I also made 2 that I use for more bench type work at 26" tall and a splay of 21.5"

[@tonykazz2779]

@@RoversAdventure I've had a productive career in building large industrial Diesel engines. Your wood working prowess in practical solutions to complexities are brilliant. You have the most interesting channel about all-things Sailing. Thank you for writing back Tony in Florida

[@vaidotasratkus7619]

162lbs? Wow that is great fit sailor!

[@RoversAdventure]

With winter clothes on lol

[@fernandopratesi5378]

I hit “like” before even watching. You just know it’s going to be great. I’m curious to see how you’ll tackle attaching things to your mast. The masthead fitting is a great idea. I imagine you’ll want as little penetrations as possible into the wood.

[@RoversAdventure]

Still working on the design. All I know at this point is it will likely be very simple but functional. My friend Prof Smythe has offered to weld it up when I settle on a design.

[@sailoutofagarage6212]

Nice work with the mast. If you want to skip the router work with knots you can just as easily fill the voids around the knot with pure epoxy, sawes some work and just as strong.

[@RoversAdventure]

In hotter weather I might try that. Even thin epoxy is a little stiff at the moment. But very good point. I will be coating everything with S1 next spring.

[@jasonmcintosh2632]

Nice! Not everyone gets to put “made mast for circumnavigation sailboat” on their man card. I would have regretted not filling those knots forever. So i think it was wise to fill them. They’re all prone to fall out.

[@NAMDNYH]

Reallly enjoying your educational videos. I am amazed that North Americans still use the Imperial system (Feet & inches etc). Metric is so much easier and safer. New Zealand changed to metric 50 years ago. There was much gnashing of teeth at the time but once people got used to the system there was no going back.

[@cosmicinsane516]

So true. It would be an agonizing 20 years here in the USA to change over, and would never really go away entirely since we have an entire nation of infrastructure built in inch-pound. But everything is so much easier to compute and figure out in metric for sure. I used to do engineering and literally about 5% of my time was converting units

[@RoversAdventure]

I was 10 years old when Canada switched to metric. I am perfectly bilingual when it comes to measurements in either imperial or metric. I prefer imperial for most building projects (exceptions are stairs and roof calculations) because the construction material here comes in imperial units and I prefer an 1/16 of an inch to a mm as it is easier to read on a tape measure for me.

[@churchofthegreenflipflop2436]

In the UK we still use a lot of imperial measurements… feet, inches, stone, pints etc … mixed with metric!

[@bobcornwell403]

I agree. The American Customary system (refered to as the Imperial System) can be a pain. But it does have its strengths. These come out when one stops thinking in inches and feet, and starts thinking in eighths, sixteenths, and thirty seconds of an inch. Notice each of these increments is half that of the preceding one. This is true all the way up to an inch. So, in smaller increments, it is very binary. Feet can be accurately divided into halves, thirds, quarters, sixths, eighths, and twelths. What it lacks, and what metric has over it, is a direct math link between linear units and volume ones. There is no direct link between pounds, ounces, and grains and linear units of measure in the AC system. Metric is not perfect, but it is better.

[@jessehorstman]

Metric is not as practical.

[@nasseemmuttur778]

Nice job. Keep it up.

[@AndyKirkpatrick50]

Hi Alan, great series of videos on mast building. Did you fit some form of lightning conducted?

[@RoversAdventure]

No I didn't

[@TheBeaker59]

Liking the mast for sure I have made a similar one recently and all your techniques are spot on I made all the same mistakes :) I suspect like yourself because I crept up on the final shape a few inacuracies along the way didn't effect the end product. Yes it is light enough and will work fine I wonder how heavy a lighter material would be a freind gave me a second mast for that boat for a larger rig it is probably a 10th the weight (important as this is a sailing dinghy for my granddaughters so needs to be easy to rig). Only issue I see is weight aloft every Kg for every M up makes a big difference in rolling moment, its a black science as in some situations weight helps and in others it doesn't but generally more is less desirable. Not saying its wrong just it will be interesting when sea trialling. Main difference with weight aloft though would be at rest the boat will rock more and longer at anchor which I guess is not what this boat is intended for.

[@RoversAdventure]

Great comment thanks

[@hrmacdonald4471]

Great video...i was wondering how you were going to weigh the mast...thinking outside the box, great idea!

[@kennedyjames007]

Great stuff. I am following your videos, fixing up an Yngling for open water coastal cruising, Bay of Fundy etc. She has a really nice strong bendy mast but I’m thinking about leaving that aside for coastal cruising and having a rig I can raise and lower myself. The mast is only 38 pounds but deck stepped, on top of the cuddy actually. Still wouldn’t be a problem if the boat wasn’t so tippy. Might go with a Gunter rig. Boat came with 4 mainsails, 3 jibs, spinnaker so I have sails to play with. Old racing sails so still in great shape for cruising sails. Thanks for the videos.

[@RoversAdventure]

We are practically neighbours.

[@willymueller3278]

Wow, you are very lucky ! My weight is 260 pounds without any mast ! 😂

[@RoversAdventure]

lol Willy

[@cecilpacetti1491]

I'm curious as to why you tapered the mast rather than leaving it the same thickness. Also, are you thinking of covering the mast in fiberglass cloth?

[@RoversAdventure]

You Taper masts like this to save weight aloft and it doesn't have any heavy loads on that section.

[@prof.heinous191]

x .414, I went to WRU! ; )

[@RoversAdventure]

From one Prof to another...thanks for that ; )

[@davidbroman8391]

Would you call that a knotical repair?

[@RoversAdventure]

Love the comment, wish I had thought of it.

[@LongRun6.4]

Ming ming 2 used a tapered aluminum utility pole.

[@mattevans-koch9353]

Always enjoy the second watch of each of your videos Alan. It came to mind on this watch that you could use Forstner bits for drilling out you knots and not have to wrestle that high speed spinning bit of destruction around. Have a great weekend and best wishes to you, Mrs. Wave Rover and Mr. Speckles for a great weekend. Stay warm.

[@RoversAdventure]

Thanks Matt, we are having a high today of 8*C, not bad for this time of year. Good suggestion with the bit, many ways to skin a cat so to speak.

[@realnutteruk1]

Today's episode of Acorn to Arabella shows a neat tool to mark the lines in one pass... a stick with two pegs and two pencils spaced correctly....

[@johnstarkie9948]

It’s called a spar gauge. It gives ratios of 7:10:7. It works on tapering square-section spars.

[@setkacagarro-blogspot-com]

A spar guage is what I use much easier and less chance for error

[@RoversAdventure]

I watched the video as you recommended it. He said that it works on the straight section and that he would have to do something else for the taper. All things considered, with a simple calculator, the method I show takes less time and then one snaps a line....what could be simpler and more accurate?

[@johnstarkie9948]

@@RoversAdventure Try a spar gauge. It’s simpler and at least as accurate.

[@rightwayresurfacinginc.9097]

Is there an advantage to wrapping mast with a layer of fiberglass?

[@RoversAdventure]

Strength wise very little but folks do it for abrasion resistance and ease of maintenance

[@JoeTheLion60]

May have missed this Alan - but any intention to implement steel banding of the mast - pros and cons?

[@terrygreene1395]

West System epoxy? The boat I built. 30 years ago I glued up with West…..the wood around the joints are rotted…but the glue is still as hard as a rock.

[@RoversAdventure]

Some West system and some East system

[@billj503]

How much longer do you estimate, before we can see her splash?

[@RoversAdventure]

I should be doing work ups by early summer if everything goes to plan.

[@billj503]

@@RoversAdventure work ups?

[@todmills]

I'm curious how you arrived at the desired dimensions for the mast (5.5" at the partners, 3" at the masthead). You must have some idea of the strength and stiffness of the wood as well as the likely load imposed?

[@RoversAdventure]

I mention the reference both in the video and in the video discription.

[@Garryck-1]

Algorithm Booster! ⛵

[@gregoryh4601]

Sir not to beat a dead Horse but I hope your Mast holds up. I just afraid of Glue Joints. Peace Be With You & Wife. Happy Holidays

[@RoversAdventure]

It's not just the mast that's glued but the entire boat.

[@gregoryh4601]

@@RoversAdventure but your awesome sailboat has A awesome Fiberglass work ! Take Care and Happy Holidays.

[@Garryck-1]

As Alan's demonstration with the mast offcut shows, modern glues are actually stronger than the timber.

[@fonhollohan2908]

Smart move to rid yourself of those knot's at least it helps give you peace of mind down the road, when you'll be out in rough weather.

[@tonysutton6559]

How did you arrive at the magic number of 0.414?

[@RoversAdventure]

It's a "constant" like pi. You can google how it is derived. I thought that this was the simplest method among many.

[@jerryhansen5116]

Curious about how much weight was taken off in the whole process, I'm also fascinated by the junk rigging cant wait to see it in action

[@junk_rig_sailor1698]

I can assure you the junk rig is a fascinating, and (in my opinion) the out and out best rig for a cruising sailor - and the safest. But - each to their own....and there is no 100% bullet proof rig, but you do your best (as Alan is doing) to make the mast as strong as you can while not making it too heavy. If ever chatting to a bermudan rig sailor, I don't preach, but they usually are interested in my rig's performance. Cheers.

[@Mk-oy9ns]

162lbs ,11 .5 stone........the camera makes you appear much bigger,lol.

[@RoversAdventure]

I'm probably wearing 8-10lbs of clothes/boots, lol