Furler swivel

I will be sailing in western NY. Going to join the Lighthouse Beach Cat Club so i can leave the boat mast up on a beautiful sandy beach on southern shore of Lake Ontario. I have sailed my whole life and was big into windsurfing all throughout the '90's but a few trips to Aruba ruined windsurfing in WNY for me forever.
I'm going to keep my mast as-is for a couple of reasone: One - I would like to someday add a spinnaker. Two - the thought being if i really want to sail competitively i would get a different boat. New boat - I doubt i will be able to find consistent crew so the FX-One would be great - but there aren't enough of them around. The Wild Cat is awesome but hard to find used and too expensive new. So i would probably try to find a nice used Tiger.

Tune-ability of my mast with comp-tip - i have heard mixed reviews on this issue - seems that there are pro's and con's to the comp-tip.

Any idea how many people have been electrocuted ?

Waiting for my mast base so i can rig the boat on trailer and try to olve the swivel/furler issue. Will keep you posted.

Thanks for the replies

Hi,

Your best bet maybe to find a H18 mast w/ a comptip from someone "parting" out a H18 ..... could/should go for $200-$250 ... maybe less if you find a really good deal ....

Do you know Tom and Sue Korz (Korznewski??? ... I'm a poor speller of names) ... they are envolved w/ (Hobie) Fleet 204 in Syracuse NY (website) ... maybe the Hobie Dealer in Syracuse NY/Boat Works Ltd can provide contact info ... go find and talk to them .... about a mast .... about a used Tiger .... very good people and they know "Hobies" inside and out.

Then make a trip down to Div11 (NJ/Pa/Del/Md) sometime .... we have the largest active H18 fleet racing on the east coast .... I'm just average, but the rest of the sailors/competitors are Goooooood .......

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HarryMurphey
H-18 mag/ #9458
Fleet 54 Div 11