After thinking about it some while sitting on the boat (with the mast down, the boat is in my back yard) I have begun to doubt that you can have a deck-stepped mast with swept-back spreaders.
I hope someone with a deck-stepped mast will join in and let me know how their spreaders are configured.
I have the shoal draft version. I'm pretty impressed with how well it sails to weather.
Dick
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--- In s227classassociation@..., Mark Swart <mark_swart@...> wrote:
Welcome!
Mine is keel stepped and after spending an hour plus trying to wrestle the mast in when I stepped it in August, I wish it was deck stepped! If you can find the right parts it shouldn't be that hard to do, but man it would feel pretty sick if you cut that mast in the wrong place!
I had an Oday 26 with a tabernacle and it worked fine, the mast was a bit shorter than the S2 but probably only a foot or two.
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Trailering is...interesting... with the 4'9 draft though.
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-Mark
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From: dickvanhooser <dick@...>
To: s227classassociation@...
Sent: Thursday, December 6, 2012 6:11 AM
Subject: [s227classassociation] Keel-stepped to Deck-stepped
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I just bought an '86 S2 27 and the only reservation I had about it is that the mast is keel-stepped. I didn't even know they had made a deck-stepped version till I read this forum. I'm wondering if it's reasonable to convert to deck-stepped. Does the deck-stepped version have a tabernacle?
The reason I'm interested is that I would like to be able to trailer my boat up from the coast when a hurricane is approaching, and I'd like to be able to do this without relying on a boatyard to unstep the mast for me.
Dick
