A simpler method with much less weight aloft is to put tie wraps around your wires without cutting off the excess material; the little tails keep the wires away from the mast.
Brian Ripley M-15 Roseville CA --- Stanley Winarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Connie, > > My condolences for your mast. > > I've managed to avoid "doing a job" on may mast over > the years only > through good luck and happenstance. > > For what it is worth re: wires in the mast: > > After I "wired" lights on my mast (made a base out > of an aluminum door > kick panel) I was amazed at how much noise that > little wire made inside > the mast during a windy night on board. In fact, I > was so amazed. I > spent the better part of the night marveling at the > noise. > > When I got home I re-ran the wires through a thin > walled pvc pipe (much > lighter than the standard thickness tube) and > inserted that up the > mast. That too had some movement inside the mast > and I wondered if it > would also be noisy under some conditions. So, in > keeping with the > philosophy that if one aspirin is good, two would be > better, I gilded > the lilly and slipped foam insulating tubes over the > pvc pipe. They > are available in builder supply stores, weigh almost > nothing, and > snugged the whole works very nicely inside the mast. > So far (four > months), so good. > > Stan Winarski > M-15, #177, Carol II > > > > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
