Mast Splicing

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Douglas

I am newby and a crew that was delivering my boat to Australia lost a forestay and the mast came down not far from Singapore. The quote to by a new mast from Zspars and get it delivered is around $15K Singapore. The price to sleeve and repair is $2K but Raffles marina wont let them work at the marina and the cost to remove the mast and transport 10 minutes up the road is $5800 SGD. Any advice on alterantives for a stranded sailor in Singpaore would be much appreciated

[Brion Toss]

Hello,
Let me get this straight: they won't let you have the mast repaired in their yard, and transport costs about as much as a good used car... Were the deliverers insured? Can someone in the yard do the work? Can you do the work in the yard? Where is the break? Any other damage?
Fair leads,
Brion Toss

[Douglas]

Ahoy Newbe , I replaced my Forespar 45' X 4" X 7.5" aluminum mast here in Singapore, and that was at Raffles where Jeffrey Leng is the yard master, in February 2011.

The reply I had received from my query to Forespar was unfortunate. At that time 2005 , Forespar was way overbooked and said it would be a que of over 8 months, before they even could build me a new mast, not to mention the shipping time and then moving it to the boatyard .

This forum was a God Send for me. I received enough info here to give me the confidence to build a complete new mast and all it's fittings , D I Y .

Yes the S'pore prices are a shock. I think that yard charged me SD$ 600.00 to mobilize a crane for one hour work to remove the old mast and install the new one.