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Originally Posted by Brion Toss
The partners don't support the mast; the mast, wedged, should be unified with the partners, in order to create an effective couple with the step. If it isn't, what you have is, to some degree, a deck-stepped-keel-stepped mast, which is to say one that might be 40% or so more limber than it could be. So you either need a heavier mast -- which is the case for actual deck-stepped masts -- or you have one that won't hold its shape.
Fair leads,
Brion Toss
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So you are saying that what I have is correct in that the partners are snug with the mast and that what I was told is wrong?