WOW Rick! Thank you for the explanation. You are correct, IT sux that I cannot go to your sailing seminars. I would have loved to attend, too bad uncle sam got a good chunk of my money , wifes speeding ticket and a small run between the blade and a parked focus. all those added up to mucho mula!

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Okay, let me get this straight. With most masts you would do as Rick has described, but if you have a superwing mast, you have to rotate to 90 degrees (an inefficient position for tacking downwind with spinnaker), so that the mast won't break?
I guess that is a true statement. The strong points of the wing mast when dead centered are fore and aft. In other words the longest section of the mast.