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Simon Holden:
Coming to the end of a long but very enjoyable build of my S17, my mind starts to turn to the practicalities of actually using my new 'trailer-sailor'.
I seems to me (apart from the lack of water ballast) that one of the main disadvantages of the 'old' Storm design is the lack of a deck-level tabernacle making rigging/de-rigging a more laborious task than maybe it need be.
Having had a few rigging 'dry-runs', I also seem to remove a fair amount of lovingly applied varnish and chunks of Douglas Fir every time I erect the mast by inserting it through the hole in the Kingplank!
Given that their designs are not a million miles apart around the foredeck area, does anyone have any experience/thoughts as to whether it might be possible to incorporate the BR17 tabernacle arrangement on a S17?
If anyone has any BR17 instructions relating to the construction of the mast/tabernacle area I'd be really appreciative of a look.
Also any photos you BR17 home-builders have of the tabernacle/mast area under construction would be really interesting to see as I think I might go 'off-piste' and give it a go!
Thanks
Simon

Terry Cross:
Hello Simon
I have the same problem with our Storm 15 and being a little "short" does not help.
Standing on a small pair of steps or tool box does the trick.
Have you thought of a "gated" cut out instead of the hole as used on the "Fireball" and other racing dinghies?

Terry Cross  "IONA"

Terry Cross:

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"Have you thought of a "gated" cut out instead of the hole as used on the "Fireball" and other racing dinghies?"

Ignore this suggestion. I did not realise the hole in the kingplank was so far foreward from the cockpit coaming

Terry IONA

Simon Holden:
Thanks for the suggestion Terry

As you say the mast 'hole' is quite a long way infront of the coaming and I think cutting a slot would weaken things a bit too much.

Presumably on a 'tabernacled' boat the tabernacle is attached to the top of the lower section of the mast and the kingplank with the mast foot permanently attached to the keel?

Any photos of this area of a BR 17 would be much appreciated!

Simon

Julian Swindell:
I'm not familiar with the Storm 17 but I wondered if thought has been given to replacing the wooden mast with a carbon fibre one? This would still have to be lifted in and out of the hole, but the weight reduction would make this far easier. Possibly it could stand unstayed as I think the mast is on the Storm 15. That would simplify rigging. I know it would cost more, but you might save that on the hardware and modifications needed for a tabernacle.

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