Mystery Mast

External Since: Jul 11, 2004 Posts: 1

All:

I acquired an aluminium mast with the purchase of a house. I use to
sail
Prindle catamarans and recongnized it as belonging to either a cat or
another type of planing boat. The only identification marks on the
mast are on shroud fittings which read "IYE England". So knowing that
this is an England based deck fitting manufacturer, I am assuming the
mast was from a
boat of English manufacture. The mast is anodized gold or bronze in
color, about 30 feet long give or take a few feet, has a mast top hook
to receive a ring fitted mainsail. All the fitting seem somewhat
light in manufacture to me comparing them to what I was familiar with
on my 18 foot prindle cat. For instance the halyard cleats appear to
be stamped metal rather than forged. Could this be from a small
monohull racer? Any information would be helpful.

Cheers!

Keith Patton

External Since: Jul 11, 2004 Posts: 8

On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 10:10:55 -0700, Keith wrote:

> mast are on shroud fittings which read "IYE England". So knowing that
> this is an England based deck fitting manufacturer, I am assuming the
> mast was from a
> boat of English manufacture. The mast is anodized gold or bronze in
> color, about 30 feet long give or take a few feet, has a mast top hook
> to receive a ring fitted mainsail. All the fitting seem somewhat
> light in manufacture to me comparing them to what I was familiar with
> on my 18 foot prindle cat. For instance the halyard cleats appear to
> be stamped metal rather than forged. Could this be from a small
> monohull racer?

It indeed looks like it from your description. I'd date it to the
early 70s (or even a little earlier). Pear-shaped sections and
'gold'-colour was what alu masts was like back then. IYE was (is?)
based in the U.K. as far as I know.

Cheers,

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