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

[Hank]

Rik,

Ed mentioned the cost of the mast if you bent it from excessive weight.  I
was replying to his comment.

Hank


On 8/12/07, Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> 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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