[Rhodes22-list] Sacrificial Toothpicks

[Mary Lou Troy]

Hi Mike,

Here are my thoughts on the subject.

1. I've never hear of an R22 mast coming down in a blow. Based on my 
own experience, leverage mistakes when raising the mast are much more 
common. All you need to do is forget to put the poptop/boom slider in 
the up position or slide the poptop/cpmpanionway slide closed and you 
create a leverage point that can be damaged if you don't notice it. 
If you just use the screws the fix is easy and the leverage points 
don't get damaged. (hear the voice of experience - we were glad there 
were screws there.)

2. As everyone else has said the stays are more than sufficient to 
keep the mast up. Even boats that have been rolled in a microburst 
(there is one account somewhere in the archives) or damaged in a 
hurricane, don't have the mast come down as you are envisioning. The 
mast may stick in the mud and get damaged, chainplates may pull but 
the mast doesn't go flying. For that to happen you would have to have 
2 and maybe 3 stays/chainplates go simultaneously.

3) If the above happened and the mast did go flying it would be just 
as deadly with a chunk of fiberglass attached to it. The leverage of 
the mast is such that if the stays go the bolts won't help much - 
might as well be screws.


Best,
Mary Lou
1991 R22 Fretless


At 11:36 PM 6/20/2013, you wrote:
>I appreciate all the feedback and we will consider all the comments. 
>I explained our logic for through bolting and I hope someone will 
>explain why we are wrong.
>
>Mike Hellyar
>sent from my iPad
>
>On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:44 AM, R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Mike,
> > Please follow the advice of the list (and Stan's) and DO NOT through bolt
> > the mast step.
> >
> > Rummy
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 6/20/2013 9:06:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> > mdh007 at wowway.com writes:
> >
> > We are  re-attaching the mast step fitting. The holes were left uncovered
> > for years.  We are going to through bolt. Yes, we know Stan's 
> theory. We used
> > a simple  process described in West System Boat Maintenance. Cured epoxy
> > can be hard on  drill bits so Steve came up with the idea to slobber match
> > sticks with some  paste wax use clear tape over the filled holed 
> and stick the
> > match sticks into  the epoxy to create a pilot small starter pilot. Tape
> > hold the matchsticks  vertical. And it worked like a charm. And the epoxy
> > wicked quite a bit to  repair any core damage in the area. By 
> taping the hole
> > opening in the cabin we  prevented in leakage. Given the strength 
> of epoxy we
> > could just as well have  re-drilled and screwed into the epoxy.
> >
> > Mike Hellyar
> > Steve Congdon,  Rhodesmaster I
> > sent from my iPad
> >
> > Begin forwarded  message:
> >
> >> From: sjcclu <sjcclu at msn.com>
> >> Date: June  19, 2013, 7:49:17 AM EDT
> >> To: Mike Hellyar <mdh007 at wowway.com>,  Mike Hellyar <mhellyar22 at yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: <No  Subject>
> >> Reply-To: sjcclu <sjcclu at msn.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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