I am picking up an 89 DS3 on Saturday from the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. I received the following answer from a couple of questions I asked. This boat was donated to the museum.
I checked the boat and everything is there except the tabernacle base of the mast ( see dwyer masts on the internet), it must have come loose when I was taking it on the trailer to the warehouse.
this boat does not have a roller furling set up, never did.
From what I have read on the internet, roller furling was standard on the DS3. I know that one I owned previously had it. I am not to concerned about it but I would like to know. It will make single handing a little more difficult but since you don't have to leave the cockpit to reach the halyards it is not a deal breaker. I am concerned about the missing mast base. I don't see anything on the Dwyer web site that looks like the mast base on the DS3. I believe the base of the mast and the cabin top hardware the DS3 uses is called a hinge, not a tabernacle. Can anyone tell me what I need? Does anyone have have the mast dimensions or Dwyer model number of the mast?
Glenn