Despite my plans of first building a set of hulls and going from there, it looks as though I'll be starting out in the F14 class with a modified H14 Turbo.

There is an abandoned H14T sitting near my boat on the beach. Other than my moving it around once in a while so it doesn't get buried by sand, it hasn't moved in at least 2 years (when I put my boat there), and probably more like 5. The mast is the comp-tip variety with the sailtrac missing from the fiberglass tip. Otherwise the boat is pretty complete.

I'm picking up an all-metal H14 mast, along with boom and mainsail for $150. Everything is in excellent condition. Some new standing and running rigging and this boat will hopefully be sailable. I'm not sure how well the hulls will hold up... they don't have any ports and the hull plugs are still in.

How important is it that the shrouds all come together at the same spot on the mast? I'd like to mount my huge G-Cat 5.7M jib on a pole and run it up a new forestay that would most likely go higher than the current one.