Old Aluminum Mast -- Replace?

[Brian Duff]

The mast is very likely fine. The amount of flex allowed by an average rig tune on a fixed backstay boat such as a Triton should mean that the mast has had no fatigue or other detrimental wear. Inspect it and if its found corrosion and crack free, rock on.

On another note i would be more in doubt of the hull of a 46 year old boat. Fiberglass hulls that old are often found to be brittle and not nearly as strong as the resins we use now. I am by no means a fiberglass expert, but I have been instructed by local experts to avoid and mistrust such old hulls. Maybe its just 'buy new boat-itus' but I am not sure.

Plus a Triton is damn slow for a trip like that, good lord. Newer designs are much much faster! (of course I have a W32 so who am I to call you out...)