Anonymous wrote:
hello, I recently purchased a coromandel 21 as a restoration project! My first task is to take the boat out of the water and I am looking for advise / guidance to remove the mast in the least expensive way possible and safest way. My plan is to bring the boat next to a jetty and remove the mast at low tide , by attaching some ropes on it . I am assuming that there are some bolts to attach the mast on the base of the hull in the cabin? I wouldn't expect the mast to be too heavy either and easily transportable on the boat once it is on a trailer? if someone could give the exact dimensions between the 2 keels that would be great too! thanks a lot
Bonjour
I own Mingming. She is not strictly speeking a coromandel but a bilge keel Corribee modified to Junk rig so very near.
She is living on her trailor with the mast horizontally fited on deck.
At the July junket in Roscoff, the mast crane of the harbour was out of service. Mingming was masted by four persons (thanks to China Blue crew !), three rising then holding the mast and the last one (me) dedicated at the mast foot, outside then inside.
Mingming was dismasted at the end of the junket , once on her trailer, on the boat area of the harbour. We used two boat, one on each side, and raised the mast with the spinaker halyards.
Again with Mingming on her trailer, I also already dismasted her by hand with 3 persons but it was quite difficult to lower the mast once unstepped.
On Mingming, the foot of the mast is hold at the foot by a U shape piece outside the maststep. There is a steinlesssteel that passed through all that to prevent the mast from rising.
The mast is not heavy and is transportable on the boat on the trailer. It overrides the car for about 3 meters.
The external width of the bidlge keels is 1,45m
The internal width of the bildge keels is 1,20m
The with of the trailer support is 1,48m
Eric