Ben wrote:
All good input, thank you!
Annie what are lolly sticks?
If you are from USA, Ben, I think you'd call them Popsicle sticks. Like tongue depressors but about 115mm x 10mm x 2mm thick and made out of wood.
Does anyone have experience with a raked foremast partner? With the slight upsweep of the deck at the bow, combined with the forward rake of the mast the opening at the partners will be more of an oval.
Fantail has a strongly raked mast and the partners are at the same angle to their base. If I had been a sufficiently clever woodworker, instead I would have made an angled plinth so that the (stainless steel) partners would have been at right-angles to their plinth. That would have been a lot cheaper. And if you are building the partners out of anything else, I still think that would be the better way to go.
I was thinking I would lay up the partners with an opening just big enough for the mast to pass through, step the mast and scribe lines off the mast from above and below. Then remove the mast and remove material down to the lines.
Do you rake the step as well and keep the mast square to its length at the foot?
I put in the mast step horizontally and sawed a little off the base of the mast to match the angle. Supposedly, this will also have a 'cam' effect to stop the mast from rotating. But I also fitted a rigging screw between two saddle eyes - one on the step and one on the mast, both to hold the mast down and to prevent it rotating.
Or should I make a new topic with this raked mast partner questions?