RE: Carbon Booms?

From: Lev Brouk (levb@12.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Thu Feb 22 2001 - 11:17:09 PST


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From: Lev Brouk <levb@12.com-DeleteThis.com>
To: "'wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com'" <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: RE: Carbon Booms?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:17:09 -0800
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I wait in at #215, so stiffness and durability are very important to me.

My experience with al booms has been mixed - I went through 3 of them in the
last 4 seasons, one of them breaking at the frontend, and 2 severely bent in
the waves. My all-carbon fiberspar has lasted 2 1/2 seasons now, has taken
a lot of abuse, and so far hasn't broken. I did have to replace the
extension lock, and the outhaul slider needs a replacement now. But at $400
or so for 2 1/2 years it seems to be about the same deal as buying a new
alluminum boom every season. And I love the stiff "locked-in" feeling of a
6.0 sail on it.

What I decided for myself is go all carbon this season - seems to cost just
as much in the long run, but you get better gear.

- Lev

-----Original Message-----
From: Georg Recht [mailto:gorecht@earthlink.net-DeleteThis.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:55 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list WIND_TALK
Subject: Re: Carbon Booms?

I definitely will not buy another Aluminum boom for my Bay Area sailing. My
experience is that Aluminum will fatigue and just break at the worst time.
All my failures occurred at the front of the boom due to fatigue and not
corrosion. There never was any warning except maybe I kept them for one too
many seasons.

I am very happy with my current booms, a Fiberspar all carbon and a Winsurf
Hawaii [mostly carbon except extensions are Aluminum].

At 09:29 PM 2/20/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>I bent my aluminum booms last year getting rinsed. Just curious, since I'm
>in the market again, what others thought of carbon booms, especially for
use
>in surf. I always thought that aluminum was preferable over carbon in
waves
>because of it's ability to bend rather than break. However, I've heard
>that aluminum's tensile strength isn't that great, has the tendency to
break
>rather than bend, and it corrodes inside where it is undetectable. Input
on
>brands would be appreciated, too. I know (think) that Fiberspar fixed
their
>problems from a couple years back, lots of folks tend to have them, but the
>all-carbon Chinooks look pretty nice (pretty hefty price tag, too!).
>
>Thanks.
>
>-Ed
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