T&T: Stay Sail Dimensions

[C. Marin Faure]

 >If built robustly enough, doesn't the boom do duty as a hoist for  
dinghies,
shark cages, motor scooters, etc?  Yes, they do look salty...

Our GB, like almost all GBs, has a mast and boom.  It could be fitted  
with a steady sail if we wanted but we don't.  But we use the boom  
all the time to raise and lower the swim-step mounted dinghy.  Sort  
of a poor man's Seawise Davit.  And the boom is the only way to  
launch the aft-cabin-mounted sailing dinghy that came with the boat.   
And we fly the national ensign from the peak of the gaff (boom).


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C. Marin Faure
GB36-403 "La Perouse"
Bellingham, Washington