Hi all,

Wondering if anyone out there can help with the following:-

The top half to my 340 mast (severne gorilla), is stuck about 5cm up the ferrell / join on the bottom half. Tried standing it up on the ground and wobbling it, 5 people on each end twisting it , 2 booms on each half and one person on each of the 2 booms wobbling the booms in opposite directions, which worked until the top half became stuck at about 5cm up the ferrell / join on the botton half, and boa constrictors from bunnings. These are basically tools that enable you to clamp both halves of the mast and twist it in opposite directions with out damaging it. They've worked great for stuck masts up until now.

Hoping someone might know how to get the bloody thing apart ?

Also, would this change the shape of the sails I rig on this mast for the worse, and if so, how would / does this negatively affect performance. ?

Did you tape up the joint? Did you take the tape off?

I wouldn't use it while it is half in, half out.

^^ good rule for most things Sparky, but maybe not all. I'd take what i can get

Never found one that could not be solved by a good bouncing of the tip on grass (more serious than the wobbling described above) and maybe some washing out the joint at same time if it has stuck halfway like this one, and the obvious twist n pull. and when twisting if it moves keep going in same direction and puling like you are trying to undo a bolt. Often reversing makes the grit bunch up again.

However there was a gorilla described here a couple years back that was too tight and after the 100 ideas from seabreeze members it was actually a factory fault, tolerance problem I guess, that they covered. Search up the threads, there are plenty of them here

While Mark is obviously quite flexible in his approach to this sort of thing, using your mast half in a half out will will definitely cause it to break. You have to get the pieces apart before you can use it again. This question has been asked heaps of times on this forum (ad nauseam) . A search will sort you out.

Baring an manufacturing defect as described above this is your best friend. Don't sail with out it:

^^^^^^ what on earth are they? Do you play coites?

Might it be worth gently tapping them further together? Against a wall with a pad on the end? I feel like any movement may be good. This works very well with booms. The temptation with a boom is to pull it apart, but a few gently taps onto a block of wood on the floor and it moves inwards. You can then pull it apart usually.

Poor Laurie is wondering where the "stuck mast" tab should go. I'm thinking after "wave sailing" and before "gear reviews".

Select to expand quote

Sparky said..
^^^^^^ what on earth are they? Do you play coites?

Only when drunk.

I read recently that someone with a similar problem tied their mast to the roof racks . When they got home it came apart, something to do with the vibrations (harmonics)

Yeah right haven't tried that. Will give it go.

Thanks everyone for info.

What, you still haven't got apart yet?