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johnsonp
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Initially Posted - 12/09/2004 :  00:41:00  Show Profile
Have a 2004 c250 WK ,need a picture showing mast storage postion ready for trailering.
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 12/12/2004 :  10:06:07  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
This picture was taken just after Hurricane Jeanne. The mast usually sits in a crutch that mounts on the rudder gudgeons. But I opted to lash it down to a 2x4 made fast to the pulpit seats. It stayed like that through Charlie, Francis and Jeanne. Notice that I lost the starboard jib sheet bag. But that was all. There is a niffty yoke made of molded fiberglass for the mast to fit into on the bow pulpit. You may be able to zoom in on it.
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bear
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Response Posted - 12/12/2004 :  10:44:50  Show Profile
For those of you who were asking about the companion-way canvas cover, Ben's picture has a very good picture of the cover installed.
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johnsonp
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Response Posted - 12/13/2004 :  23:46:59  Show Profile
Thanks for the reply.
Zoomed in on some of those knots not bad.
Have a picture or the dimensions of the crutch would you?
What kind of compass on the port side?
thanks paulj
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Ben - FL
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Response Posted - 12/18/2004 :  19:03:58  Show Profile  Visit Ben - FL's Homepage
The compass is a Plastimo. And it is wired in with the running lights.
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 12/23/2004 :  21:26:14  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
For what it's worth, this was my WB setup. If you can get the mast up higher over the cockpit it makes moving around
the cockpit for loading/unloading and roadside sandwich making children pit stops a lot easier.



Oscar
C42 # 76 "Lady Kay" (Ex. C250 WB #618 )
Georgetown MD/Fort Lauderdale FL
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bear
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Response Posted - 12/24/2004 :  09:00:46  Show Profile
Paul, Oscar's picture shows the correct set up as delivered from the factory. With a 2004 WK you should have gotten the the mast carrier for the back of the boat and a fibreglass holder for the front of the boat which fits over the front life line stanchions and the bottom-middle of the mast fits in the middle of the fibreglass holder....
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mday
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Response Posted - 12/24/2004 :  14:39:34  Show Profile
Oscar, Bear:

It looks like Oscar's picture shows a center support that is attached to the mast block. Is this also std. equipment????? I don't recall seing something like this with my boat. Looks like a good idea, though.

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Keith D.
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Response Posted - 12/24/2004 :  19:04:59  Show Profile
Max the brace people use on the mast step is not factory. Everyone just makes something up on their own. Here is a closer picture of the one I made for my boat. I just used a block of wood with a pin through it like the mast pin (which you can't see) and then I drilled it for a steel post and welded a u bracket on top. This one is adjustable but there is no need to get that fancy. I used a bow stop for a Jet Ski in the u for a pad so it wouldn't scratch the mast up and it gave me somewhere to tie it to the mast.
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bear
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Response Posted - 12/25/2004 :  11:45:47  Show Profile
Paul, The only time I use the center support is during the winter months ro support a tarp and what ever snow accumulates. "Different strokes for different folks". "Bear" on the real hard in upstate N.Y.
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Oscar
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Response Posted - 12/25/2004 :  23:09:07  Show Profile  Visit Oscar's Homepage
Roger the home made center support, mine was 2x's and 1x's and a pile of galvanized drywall screws......no need to get fancy here. Main purpose was to keep the mast from bending when I used the ratchet straps to tie it down.....

Oscar
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johnsonp
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Response Posted - 12/26/2004 :  02:33:01  Show Profile
Well thanks a lot for all the information everyone.
I bought my 2004 boat used and there was some things missing.
Just needed some pictures for help and additional ideas which the group seems to always give.
paulj
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fredflemming
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Response Posted - 12/30/2004 :  12:46:03  Show Profile
I like the idea of a support that fits into the mast step. Simple, obvious, why didn't I think of that? Another example of the beauty of this forum.

I only use the intermediate support (up 'til now just a 2x4 wedged under the mast) to brace the mast against the tarp/snow loads during winter storage. I urge any owner in northern climes to do this as the snow load can be considerable. The second year I had my boat, in 1996, we got a big snow and the factory-supplied aft support buckled. As the mast fell to the deck, one of the spreaders was ripped off and the mast indented by the spreader attachment fitting. I had to get a whole new mast since it would have buckled at that point when under load. Insurance paid for most of it, fortunately. I made substantial supports out of 2x4s to both take the snowload and to raise the mast higher so that the tarp pitch is steeper. Now the snow usually just slides right off. However, in a real dump of heavy, wet snow I still have to go out with a broom and knock the snow down.

When trailering, the mast is just supporting its own weight and I haven't found it necessary to use an intermediate support. I tie the mast down at the ends, right where the regular supports are, so there is no extra load in the middle.
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