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Wood spreaders for DE32. Needs sand and paint but otherwise seem solid.
Replacing my rigging so will be available soon.
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Jonathan Oasis said:
Wood spreaders for DE32. Needs sand and paint but otherwise seem solid.
Replacing my rigging so will be available soon.
Send me PM
Am interested--if not the spreaders, the measurements. My spreaders are split--DE 32.
I contacted LeFiel, the company that fabricated the mast--did NOT make the spreaders.
Help me out, if you can.
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Try looking at this for Spreader Length..scroll down to the Detail.
http://downeasteryachts.com/th.....ig-details
Looks to me they are 48" long....
S/V The Last Farewell,
Currently laying Panchos Marina
Marathon, Florida
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I'm not sure about that link, anyway, I copied the JPG to here..
S/V The Last Farewell,
Currently laying Panchos Marina
Marathon, Florida
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we made new spreaders for our DE38 but I never even measured them. Just put the old ones onto a blank and traced out the outline and milled new ones to that line. 🙂 It was for the DE38 though so wouldn't have been the same as the 32 anyways. It was easy to make them though.. Whole project only took a couple hours to make two of them. Used a table saw to cut out the rough blanks and then a belt sander to mill them to shape on the lines and round the edges. cut out the tip with a jig saw, and then sanded them with a palm sander to smooth out the 36 grit marks form the belt sander that I shaped them with. They fit perfectly doing it this way. You might see if Jonathan can lay his down on a piece of paper and outline the profile from all sides onto some tracing paper or something similar and mail it to you so you have something easy to transfer the lines to a piece of wood.
Scott
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KachemakRa said:
Am interested--if not the spreaders, the measurements. My spreaders are split--DE 32.
I contacted LeFiel, the company that fabricated the mast--did NOT make the spreaders.
Help me out, if you can.
My rigger ordered new aluminum spreaders via a company in Newport Beach CA.
Turns out the measurements were wrong because they are longer than the previous. Obviously the rigger or the shop used the measurement then added the boot (mast end)on to the air foil part which gives maybe 2"-3" additional length. Additional spreader length adds more strength so just used them as is. But may not be a good fit for direct replacement, as I had my rigging redone at the same time.
Also the bolt holes were not well aligned in the original spreaders (not unexpected).
I hope your spreaders split while dock side and not while sailing... !
Let me follow up in a few days with more info.
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This is what my rigger had to say about the aluminum spreaders he had fabricated for me:
I believe those spreaders were 48" long, with a base of 1 1/4" x 5", but the guy to contact is Rodney at 562 921 3411. That is the number for Lafeill manufacturing. He probably has the notes from that little job. It would be a very good idea to crawl up there and measure the brackets as I imagine all the spars were slightly different, but th 48" length should be good.
If this does not turn out to give more info, then I will measure and/or trace-out my original ones as suggested by Scott. They're sitting idle here, in fact I've been wondering what I might do with them, maybe use them as a shelf bracket 😀
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You should have seen the ones we pulled off.. they had cracks in them and rotten wood that you could put a finger through.. scary.... this was before I bought the boat and we had been out sailing in 25 knot winds just a week or two before. After being out sailing in that I happened to use some binoculars to look at something on the mast head and saw what I thought was cracks in the spreaders. ran up the mast to them and got a serious shock when I saw how bad they were. Supposedly they were only a couple years old as they were supposed to have been replaced a few months prior to Angela purchasing the boat. They had been freshly painted at the time of purchase anyway..
We pulled them and Angela bought the wood and I used the old ones as a template and in a couple hours we cut a couple rough blanks out of a big block of wood and scribed lines on it. Then used 36 grit on a belt sander to quickly take it down to the lines. Cut out any divots such as at the tip with a jigsaw and then used 120 on the belt sander to smooth it and round the edges. Then 180 and 240 on a palm sander to give it a finished surface. All told it only took about 3 hours to fabricate.
controversial part was we used teak to make them out of so it added a bit of weight aloft. Couldn't find spruce locally and wasn't going to use cheaper wood as we didn't want issues over time with rot etc... Figured the teak would last 20 or 30 years 🙂
Now that I own the boat, if I was doing it now, I would probably just go for aluminum. Got to say they look nice in wood though. I probably should go up and put some finish on them. We left it raw teak after fabricating them as it needed to weather a bit before much of anything would really stick to them. It's been about 4 or 5 years since then and I give them a look see every time I go aloft and they are just doing their teakie thing.. Stuff just doesn't weather much compared to other woods.
Scott
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