James Eckhardt
New Member
I posted about my new boat a while back: http://sailingforums.com/threads/star-dancer.29497/ and I'm just getting back to working on it after a long winter. It had been noted that the mast of my boat was nine feet while the mast of a sunfish was ten feet. Sometime this winter I went to look at the mast, and it looks as if the bottom foot of the mast has been cut off. Being a pretty poor college student I'm trying to repair my boat on a fairly limited budget, and I didn't plan for a new mast. Though I hope to get one sometime in the future, I might not be able to this season. Does anyone have any clue how a mast being a foot short would affect sailing? I'm betting no one else has experience with this, but it would be good to hear your thoughts.