[Rhodes22-list] Wind-induced noise in rigging/mast while docked

[Rob Lowe]

Well come on now Art, what is/was your solution?? - rob


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur H. Czerwonky" <czerwonky at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Wind-induced noise in rigging/mast while docked


> All,
> I had a chance to meet with Al yesterday after his late night arrival the
night before.  After checking out his 26' mast flute, I think we have come
to a solution to his problem with unhappy neighbors.  He seemed very happy
with the service received from GBI.  All in a day's work in the Rhoadie
fleet!
> Art
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: keblinskas Keblinskas <keblinskas at msn.com>
> >Sent: May 14, 2008 2:48 PM
> >To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> >Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Wind-induced noise in rigging/mast while docked
> >
> >
> >I keep my '97 Rhodes 22 on the Boca Ciega Bay of St. Petersburg, FL ,
docked on a lift, with mast
> >up, at my back yard seawall, on the St. Pete Beach island side of the
bay. The dock is fairly well
> >sheltered around all points,except the North. The periodic winter cold
fronts blow in from the North
> >with 20+ knot gusty wind which produces a horrendous wailing howl in the
rigging/mast.
> >
> >While docked, the boat's stern faces NE ; it seems to me the wailing
noise must be caused by the wind entering the IMF's hollow mast groove and
then exiting near the top producing the howl, like an organ pipe. I don't
think the noise is from the shrouds.
> >
> >Please let me know if any of you have experienced or heard of someone
else running into something
> >similar, with any IMF system. If so, has anybody come up with a method to
mitigate this problem,
> >other than lowering the mast / derigging or docking the boat so that the
stern (and mast groove)
> >faces to leeward?
> >
> >Your comments will be very appreciated, so I thank you in advance,
> >
> >Al Keblinskas
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