Hi there,
I have an old wooden Enterprise that I am trying to find a mast, boom and rigging for, with the mast and boom being the hard part.
I am wanting new or used aluminium for both and am finding it hard to even find where to start.
If anyone has any recommendations for around the Brisbane, Toowoomba, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast areas it would be great.
Cheers,
JB
Get yourself over to www.catsailor.net/ and in the general forum just yell out for a bloke by the name of Norman Jones, he's up Mooloolaba way and has lots of second hand boat stuff.
Always a tough one for older classes.
Try sailmakers, some of them will have come thru the various dinghy classes and may know. Yacht riggers will be expensive, but may be able to head you in the right direction.
If original or exact replacements are not available, ( so you race in "class") it is usually not too difficult to modify a newer set up from a current more popular class. A lot of class associations have their preferred suppliers and some even keep spare rigs on hand. So that sends you down around clubs asking around.
Sorry I can't help more, good luck!
Try a standard comalco or James Glass Pear Shaped section for Mast and Boom. National 125s use this section and they are cheap because of no tapering (65mm by 45mm)
You could advertise on their Classifieds section for old sections laying about (www.125assoc.com)
The Enterprise is Holt design and is bound to have a UK based webpage where you can get dimensions. The mast is a straight extruded section and would be the same section as a 420 or plenty of other classes. The sails were always blue but these days where you are probably just after a family cruising boat you could do what you like. Plenty of masts and sails appear on eBay or visit a few rubbish dump recycle shops.
The Enterprise is big and heavy but a pretty good sailer.
Wow, thanks everyone for the feedback, I didn't get any emails so I wasn't sure if anyone replied.
I will go through the responses and let you know how I go,
Thanks again,
JB
