How To Make A Hollow Wooden Sailboat Mast
The mast is hollow but tree places, the foot, where the boom is attached and spreders are attached. based on the books it's 78% of the weight of a solid mast but as strong as.. To make a hollow mast an alternative way you just have to have the following gear: of wood (spruce is better but i have not find of the sawmill, i used north fir joinery quality sold in a building shop) (in fact the spruce and the north fir it is almost the same essence) a cord twine a circular saw (good enough model). Since i’m a poor student i tend to build most of the parts that i need. wooden masts are usually hollow and made up of a bunch of smaller pieces glued together. unless the mast is intended for a very small boat; under 16 feet with 2 masts, you’ll need to glue up a mast. boats up until about 20 feet can use solid masts..
A solid wooden mast 20 metres long would weigh more than twice as much as an aluminium one suited to the same vessel, and this extra weight aloft would make the boat top-heavy and unstable. to get round this problem, sailors of yore gave their racing yachts hollow masts.. Maybe you'd like to make small flagpole, or even something as small as a walking cane. this article shows you how to make any square (in cross-section) length of wood into a perfectly round one without using a lathe. most boat masts are tapered, and this method works with either a straight or tapered mast.. An instructional video on how to build a sturdy, affordable, wooden sailboat mast..
