One of the things I like about my lateen rig is that I no longer have stays
trying to drive my mast through the bottom of the boat.
Still, there may be ways to support the mast compression without dividing
the vee-berth - some kind of arch or inverted vee, perhaps.
Harry Gordon
P14 #234, Manatee
Mountain View, CA
>Don't remove that compression post, if you knew anything about engineering &
>design, you wouldn't even write or contemplate such a deed as that.
>Ted - milwaukee
>
>SolarFry@aol.com wrote:
>
>>
>> I love my P19 but am rapidly acquiring fatal attraction to that CMP. One of
>> this day's.... Kablooie! It's dead meat.
>>
>> Best
>> Solar Fry
>> P19 #1028, "Elusive Margin"