So, It's been getting colder and darker sooner here on the Chesapeake Bay, but we were able to get out for a couple of hours Wednesday afternoon. I noticed that my all of my standing rigging (forestay, backstay, and all 4 side stays) were looser than usual. The turnbuckles were all still pinned properly and didn't look like they expanded. I'm sure that a little mast shrinkage is normal when it's cold outside, right?
I do have a deck stepped mast on a 1970 E-32, and I'm looking for anyone willing to tell me that the compression post is not rotting at the bottom (where it seems to be continuously moist) or that the support below the compression post in the seemingly inaccessible below-the-single-piece-fiberglass-floor pan has not somehow rotted or compressed.
I seem to remember a post about adding a support, but couldn't find it. I was really hoping there'd be some magic viking cure, but it looks like I may be jacking and bracing this winter.
Has anyone fixed this? and How can I check the mystery support under the floor pan without cutting through the floor pan?
Thanks again for your hard won expertise!
-Dean
I do have a deck stepped mast on a 1970 E-32, and I'm looking for anyone willing to tell me that the compression post is not rotting at the bottom (where it seems to be continuously moist) or that the support below the compression post in the seemingly inaccessible below-the-single-piece-fiberglass-floor pan has not somehow rotted or compressed.
I seem to remember a post about adding a support, but couldn't find it. I was really hoping there'd be some magic viking cure, but it looks like I may be jacking and bracing this winter.
Has anyone fixed this? and How can I check the mystery support under the floor pan without cutting through the floor pan?
Thanks again for your hard won expertise!
-Dean