[Rhodes22-list] Question for Robert S, reply to John B, reply to Lee

[Hank]

There is little chance of the mast bending as the stress is held by the
shrouds.

Hank

On 8/11/07, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
>
>
> Bob S,
> 1.      Do your calculations assume the weight aloft is on centerline of
> the
> mast?  Whose weight would be on centerline using a boson's chair?
> 2.      I noticed Rob Lowe's reply to one of my posts, so what have you
> been
> sending him?
> 3.      Getting close to departure date?  How is wife healing?  (That is
> healing
> physically and not on sail boats.)
>
> Lee,
>         I believe the cost of a new mast is many thousand if you bend it,
> since it cannot be straightened with integrity intact.  Raising and
> lowering
> the mast on a R22, if even to fix the light is quite safe, simple and
> quick
> using Stan' crane.  I have done it at the dock without incident.
> Positioning the boat so that mast is over the dock where the work needs to
> be done.  Remember the R22 IMF mast is a specially drawn mast using a
> proprietary die.  It is not available from anybody but Commodore Spitzer
> and
> the current cost of aluminum is out of sight.
>
> John B,
>         Interest rates theoretically are determined by the market and not
> an
> idealized number.  That is what a willing buyer is willing to pay without
> collusion, compulsion or coercion.  Your friend is a socialist or a fellow
> traveler.
>
> Ed K
> Greenville, SC, USA
> Addendum:  "The turmoil in the credit markets now emanating from the
> collapse of the housing bubble can be understood in the light of the
> theory
> of the business cycle.  Credit expansion distorts the pattern of spending
> and capital investment in the economic system. This in turn leads to the
> large scale loss of capital and thereby sets the stage for a subsequent
> credit contraction, which is precisely what is beginning to happen now."
> George Reisman
>
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