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

[Rik Sandberg]

Hank,

the issue isn't the mast "bending", it is the mast tipping over, along 
with the rest of the boat. Whole different thing.

Rik

Hank wrote:
> 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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