paul wrote: surprised you can do the 32 with only 20 ft (but know why - that's max length for continuous tubing unless you find a damaged mast). What size tubing (wall th or schedule) do you use for gin pole? How heavy is E32 mast, how tall?
I think our pole is longer then 20. I'll have to check, it is an old mast section off something really big. It's a D section about 7" and was used on a J29 as a gin pole until that owner traded up to a broken section of his J29. E32 mast must not be more then 200#, one man can shoulder lift it off the saw horses. The I 38' plus the keel section, about 42' total.
I don't know what the dyneema bridle is but can find it.
I made the dyneema bridle out of Amsteal from West Marine. It will most defiantly take the load and is easy to splice.
Pterobyte????-- Merit is named Pterodactyl and plan to call E26 Pterodactyl 2.
An E42 syndicate I was a member of for a few years was named Pterodactyl. The E32, being smaller, I made it Pterobyte. We refer to them as PteroD and PteroB. You might be interested in
http://pterobyte.us/about-2/1) Up here is Mass about 10-12 yr ago, somebody purchased an E32 and was hauling to Ohio area. Trailer got squirrly on highway in Danvers/Peabody area, spilled boat across 2 lanes. Don't know if totalled or not but would have been pricey restoration.
OMG! I have NOT heard that story. I bought my boat out of OH, August '08, from a sail maker that worked at the Doyle/Ullman loft in Cleveland. It could very well be my boat. When we tore into the boat this winter we found a few scares that we thought were racing conflicts on the water or it had been dropped off the hard during a storm or something. We cleaned out, reinforced and stiffened any old repairs. I am confident we found everything as we had the entire boat stripped down to or below original gel coat. I think we made the boat stiffer then new as a consequence. I don't think we added any weight either.
Aside from that, the sail number is 32132, the same number that appears on the
original brochure. I was told, and we believe, it is hull number 1. Everybody I talk to seems to agree.
- Evelyn 32-2 Brochure
If anybody has anymore info on this story, I'd be glad to hear it.