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Home Forums Search Boat Show TSBB Roster Chandlery Events Classifieds Resources More Fun About TSBB	Instructions/FAQ | Rules & Etiquette | Clear Cookies View Thread | Post Response | Return to Index | Read Prev Msg | Read Next Msg | That's a BIG difference... Posted By: Doug King, Santana 23 & Sundowner 36 Date: 3/31/08 10:59a.m. Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Size matters (Bob Frak 2023C Marquette Mi.) a suggestion Gary- see if you can get a short pole mount that can be put either straight ahead for reaching, AKA the conventional bowsprit; and also mounted outward at 45 degrees on either tack for running at deeper angles. The really fancy racing boats have sprits that swivel aft, to gain some of the benefits of a conventional spinnaker pole. That strikes me as a bit complicated, but if you just added two extra hard points for the clamp holding down the sprit, at each gunwhale.... maybe right next to the bow pulpit foot or even integrated into it.... you could gain a lot of functionality for little cost & complexity. FWIW I am thinking of adding a bowsprit & a mast head A-sail to my older S23 but that's long way in the future because I have a LOT of other projects to finish first. Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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1995 2023R for sale in Wisconsin -- Tom, 2023A, Coupeville WA -- 3/27/08 9:57a.m.

A little closer, and I'd check her out. -- Gary, Santana 2023A, Milwaukee -- 3/27/08 10:48a.m.

Check out the pic with the mast shape in it. -- GEN, Santana 2023A-Tall, SE Michigan -- 3/28/08 6:52p.m.

A bit expensive for this kind of experiment but... -- Doug King, Santana 23 & Sundowner 36 -- 3/27/08 11:55a.m.

experiment -- Mark Welch -- 3/30/08 6:27p.m.

R conversion -- charles pratt -- 4/7/08 6:39p.m.

2023r -- richard -- 3/27/08 4:06p.m.

Info on 2023R Assy Spinnaker -- Tom, 2023A, Coupeville WA -- 3/27/08 5:22p.m.

I am (was?) planning same, deck mounted 'sprit -- Gary, Santana 2023A, Milwaukee -- 3/28/08 8:51a.m.

If the sprit can be about 10% of "J" or more -- Doug King, Santana 23 & Sundowner 36 -- 3/28/08 9:18a.m.

Thanks, Doug, thoughts for me to ponder. -- Gary, Santana 2023, Milwaukee -- 3/29/08 9:47a.m.

Size matters -- Bob Frak 2023C Marquette Mi. -- 3/29/08 7:36p.m.

Spoken like a true American male, Bob! -- Gary, Santana 2023, Milwaukee -- 3/29/08 8:40p.m.

 That's a BIG difference...  -- Doug King, Santana 23 & Sundowner 36 -- 3/31/08 10:59a.m.

Hey, Doug! What Rudy has done was simple, effective. -- Gary, Santana 2023A, Milwaukee -- 4/1/08 1:33p.m.

bow sprit lever - stainless steel stock -- Paul Germain, 2023 C -- 4/1/08 4:21p.m.

Sounds good -- Doug King, Santana 23 & Sundowner 36 -- 4/3/08 7:48a.m.

Bow - Important to consider. -- Geiorge E Norkus, Santana 2023A, SE Michigan -- 4/4/08 1:01p.m.

 

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