filming boat

Step 8 Mast detail

The mast fixation detail :
- blue = steel
- beige = felt of wool and cotton
- brown = carbon mast
- red screwable half circles steel "U" with big-ears-bolts (notice that there is many holes for many size"U", so many different types of mast can be fixed, if i brake my carbon mast i still will be able to cut a tree (it happened to me) and continue sailing)

The felt is the most original part of this thing : instead of having a rigid fixation i think it is always better to have flexibility, so the mast won't break, the wool felt will bend. Plus, it's a bit tricky but when the weather is bad and it rains and there is a lot of wind : the felt get wet and so tighter with humidity but remains elastic. When sun is shining and it's dry, felt is dry and looser and sailing is more flexible : more accurate to wind small changes and so more responsive and faster on the water. But it's true that you can have dry and lot of wind, and wet and no wind, I'm talking of "in general" ... So in use I would have a plastic bag on the mast passage so I can control the humidity of the felt myself.