Hi Gang,
I recently bought a 1960 Sailstar Explorer (the same one I posted about earlier). Everything is going great, exept I want to cut the mast so I can step and unstep single handed.
I've been reading around here and it seems as though most everyone uses what I call a hinged mast plate:
Hinged mast plate
And no one uses what I'd call a tabernacle:
Tabernacle
Please correct me if I'm using the wrong terminology.
The simplicity and cost of the latter is appealing, but I'm concerned of it's strength vis a vis the hinged mast plate. Both are only held together with one bolt (assuming the front bolt isn't used on the mast plate - as many do), but I wonder if the bolt in the "tabernacle" will distort the mast under stress?
Are there other disadvantages to the Tabernacle that I'm missing?
Do I make any sense at all?
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