help my mast is stuck together,tried two booms,tried lashing both pieces with down haul rope and twisting (broke the rope!).
Any other suggestions welcome.
Remove top bung, connect garden hose via couplings and a hose clamp to top of mast, turn on tap, shake mast for half an hour.
*POP* whoosh YAY! 
That said, I haven't seen a mast that won't yield to the "Add more booms and sailors until it comes apart" method.
Next time wrap electrical tape around the join before you stick the mast into the sail, it stops sand getting into the joint and sticking the halves together.
Not another one 
This should be an FAQ topic. I just had a quick look for the articles that have been posted here but I couldn't find them.
This was discussed not that long ago.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=43480
There's a good method that involves a van.. 
Hope that helps!
Try tapping around the join with a rubber mallet or piece of wood. It's likely jammed by the wedging of sand / grit / salt, and bashing the said particles into smaller pieces often frees it. Also do a search (seabreeze), this topic has been raised a few times before - there's a classic video showing a mast being seperated by using a stout tree and a 4WD.
Edit - beat me to it!
Thankyou everyone job done, used the flex and wedge method to get it started then the lash and twist to finish.
cheers
In the referenced thread, aus301, thewindmap and DavMen mentioned taping their masts.
I can tell you that this method really does work. Before I did this, my mast would often
be very hard to seperate. I very nearly had a 1 piece mast. After using the tape method,
my mast has always come apart easy.
still recommend trying the mother-in-law inside an xd falcon driving off a cliff technique
waz taught me a good lesson the other week.
tape your mast before you go out.
stops sand and crap from getting into the joint.
makes it easy to get undone, and stops the sandpaper effect on the part that goes into the top end, which grinds it down.
Rosey, aus301, thewindmap, DavMen, sharkbiscuit and easty taught me a good lesson.
tape your mast before you go out.
stops sand and crap from getting into the joint.
makes it easy to get undone, and stops the sandpaper effect on the part that goes into the top end, which grinds it down.
I've found using tape makes it easier to pull the mast out of the sail...( It's also good for hampsters.) 
Try taping the joint, or better still, put tape round the joint. This will get the mast apart.
tape around the joint seems to go alright. or use some sort of material which has one side with adheres to the mast, and rap that around :)
I?v got a bit of a more diffecult problem out here.. My mast was also stuck and after lots of booms and even more people it seperated. But it was the wrong way: the glued part came out and the sandy part is still stuck. So rightnow I have one piece which is cracked and has no funnel anymore (I meen the connecting thing) and I have one part that has a funnel in it stuck with sand. Strange thing is that the mast looks like it shrunk: you can feel exactly where the funnel ends. I sailed it for two months in Brazil and bought it brandnew a week before I went.
Has anybody done this before? Any good ideas to get that thing out? I really need the base (the part that holds the funnel rightnow) because I can only get a new top. That's because it's not really guarantee since I've "put too much forces on the mast which it isn't built for".
Hope someone has a good idea because I'm sick and tired of trying without result.
You could possibly saw off the stub, then use a hacksaw blade to make a longitudinal slit in the remaining section from the inside. Doing this would relieve the pressure holding the parts together and let you pull it out. Just be careful not to saw all the way through the inner piece into the good mast section. This technique has allowed me to get a corroded tiller out of a rudder box casting on a beachcat, and a seat post out of a bike frame. Good luck.
So do you put the tape around the bottom part before you slide the top on, or do you tape around the join of the two when they are together?
