by UCanoe_2 » Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:14 pm
IMO a lot of work that would be unlikely to yield satisfactory results. You would have to cobble things together to make it fit, and the wooden mast's stiffness and other mechanical properties would be very different from the original mast. What would you do with the left over 7 feet of wooden mast?
Your wooden C-Scow mast could well be Sitka Spruce, which is expensive. Rather than cut it up, you could probably sell it, buy a replacement aluminum mast, and have some change left over.
For comparison, I replaced the mast on my DS I last year. I found a used mast for $150 (not a bargain price). Don't know what boat it came from, but the cross-section dimensions are within the DS class specifications. The mast without any fittings or standing rigging weighs 16 lbs.
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