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Your Name: Email Address: Password: ( Needed to edit or delete this message.) Message Title: Text of Message: Add an Image: An image can also be attached to this listing. Click "Browse" to select the image file on your PC. It can be a JPEG or a GIF file. The file will be uploaded to the server, scaled to fit, and will appear beside the entry. Replying to: Building mast from tube section Hi 125ers, I am building a replacement mast for one that broke. The old mast was probably 25-30 years old ( No 386 ). I could install the old fittings on the new section using the building guide for the distances but I thought I should check here first about the current practices. 1/ Old mast seems to have had some sort of expanded polystyrene foam inside - is this a good idea/desirable? 2/ Building guide mentions using a compression tube at the jib hounds. What would I use for this and how is it installed? 3/ Old mast had a wire halyard and a fitting that acted as a halyard lock. It seems that current practice is to do without this and use a spectra halyard and some sort of cleat. Is this a better way to go? What type of cleat and where installed? 4/ I have seen on a few pacer masts a small hole in the side of the track to lead the halyard outside the track just above the cutout for feeding the sail in. This seems to be a good way to get the halyard out and in line with a cleat on the mast. Good idea or not? 5/ How to make the cutout for feeding the sail in and mounting the gooseneck? 6/ Old mast has the gooseneck on a short length of adjustable track. Is this still done or is a fixed gooseneck used and a cunningham used to adjust sail leech tension. 7/ While I am at it I would like to install the fittings for a spinnaker. Does the block on the mast hang from a hounds fitting or is it led inside the mast? If external how is the halyard turned and routed to the cockpit.? 8/ Same for the topping lift. Thanks for any answers, Regards, Davo ( Melbourne)