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fambrose
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:01 pm Post subject: original windsurfer mast foot |
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| Which I need as original is at bottom of lake. An resource to help find one would be appreciated |
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isobars
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: original windsurfer mast foot |
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| fambrose wrote: | | Which I need as original is at bottom of lake. An resource to help find one would be appreciated |
Examine the groins of everyone who owned one. I'm sure they're still deeply embedded in some of them.
Hey, even though I can't help you find one, at least I may have brightened your day. 
In all cereal-ness, I'd fabricate a way* to mount a two-bolt Chinook mast foot into your existing board slot. Much healthier for your voice and anatomy.
* Probably a rubber, wood, or plastic plug that would expand and hold when you drive two long bolts into it.
Mike \m/
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katiedog
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| My teak one is on the barn wall with my HIGH wind daggerboard. |
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swchandler
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 5:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Isn't someone in the Schweitzer family currently promoting and selling the original Windsurfer One Design? They just might be able to help. |
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eghoffman
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gvogelsang
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2016 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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| katiedog wrote: | | My teak one is on the barn wall with my HIGH wind daggerboard. |
Beautiful! Too funny.
On a serious note, I used to wrap masking tape around my base so that it would stay put. It worked. |
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joethewindsufa
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DW
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Considering the original foot was terrible and popped out all the time, I'd make one.
Back then, we had a guy on the beach that hot glued them in the board for everyone for $2.00
So take a modern foot and build a wooden adapter shim that jams in nicely. Then take a hot glue stick and melt some glue on it right before you jam it in there. |
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joethewindsufa
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Auzzie forum says the same thing
fill the void and then put a Chinook plate: {same suggestion as isobar}
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jaybaldwin
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2016 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| supSURFmachines wrote: | Considering the original foot was terrible and popped out all the time, I'd make one.
Back then, we had a guy on the beach that hot glued them in the board for everyone for $2.00
So take a modern foot and build a wooden adapter shim that jams in nicely. Then take a hot glue stick and melt some glue on it right before you jam it in there. |
I remember back in the late 70's renting the Windsurfer at Sail New Haven.
I paid my $15 for the hour rental and the girl gave me a piece of carpet and told me to go to the beach and pick a rig and board.
I was confused on what the carpet was for until she showed me to put the carpet in the slot and jam in the mast foot. And she said " when you uphaul keep your foot on the wooden thing" Yeah it did not go so well.
But 37 years later I am still hooked. |
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