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

[Rik Sandberg]

Hank,

Oops, guess that was a whole different  conversation .....sorry

Rik

Hank wrote:
> 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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