Fremantle Yachties.

[Patrigo]

There are many yachts all over the Worlds oceans with keel stepped masts. There are very many posts in yachting fora by these owners, sometimes in despair, as they plead for someone to show them how to avoid, the sometimes voluminous quantities of water in their bilges via the mast, internally and externally. The way to fix the problem is to give up using a stepping method, developed probably before the days of the Spanish Armada(for timber ships with timber masts), and get with it. It is now the 21st Century!
After many enlightening wanderings around Fremantle Marinas in the 'eighties, I bought my Adams 28 in Brisbane in 1989 and changed to a Freo keel stepped mast pdq. I have posted on this subject several times and occasionally a Freo yachtie steps in and immediately changes course and tells us about what extra we need to do to get under bridges.!!--which is the reason for developing the method originally. Hey you guys!! the World is not really interested in getting under bridges, they just want a dry boat!
So now the reason for the title of this post. Freo yachties---forget the bridges, just tell the World that you have devised the best method of keel stepping a mast which CANNOT LEAK and is, as I know, perfect and faultless. About 27yrs of, occasionally, cleaning cobwebs from my mast base
tells me that! And no disadvantages at all!
There must be a few Freo's who could give the technical side of things, and the history of the idea! Cut loose! Cochleal implants, the Hills Hoist, and now the 'Fremantle Keel Stepped"

[coopec43]

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[Patrigo]

I have just revisited this post I made a couple of months ago. Only one interested party!!
Does this mean that those who have leak problems actually relish the situation, it gives them something boatie to bitch about? May their bilges slosh with water and their mast steps rot away! (just joking!) And those in Fremantle?--- they must want to keep it a secret! If I had been the person who developed the idea, I would be busting my guts to get the idea out there and become the hero of the dry bilge brigade.