Annie wrote:
David wrote:No. He wouldn't.
He simply takes the view that the hybrid method is the easiest, least skilled, least expensive, most pragmatic way of getting an unstayed mast.
Really? I thought you didn't like wooden spars. However, as it would cost me over $2,000 to buy the extra timber required, I guess I'd better stick with the hybrid. Shame.
The question was not whether I like, or don't like, wooden masts; the question was whether or not I would disown you for liking them ;-)
In some parts of the world, you can go into the forest and cut yourself a mast, and for a heavy displacement boat, that has to make economic sense, so long as you have the wherewithal to transport it and clean it up, and can accommodate the extra diameter.
In some parts of the world, good mastmaking timber is routinely grown and milled, and then, so long as you have the wherewithal to convert it into a staved mast, and can accommodate the extra diameter, that will make sense.
In some parts of the world, tapered aluminium flagpoles are readily available, and so long as transport is available, and the cost can be borne, that will always be my personal favourite way of getting a light, stiff, long lasting, low maintenance mast.
But in most parts of the world, it's easiest to buy, transport, make and assemble a hybrid mast. That's all I'm really saying. But the question is hypothetical now, as far as Fánshì is concerned, because the tabernacle has already been sized to suit a hybrid.