http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/ Wooden Lightning Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:31:04 GMT tim_karasek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2430 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2430 Thank you so much Jim. Unfortunately I'm located in one of the dryest counties in Michigan (tough to sail). I'll e-mail you the address and you can let me know Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:02:13 GMT forcex2@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2429 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2429 I have two. You're welcome to one. Pay shipping only. Where are you in Michigan? I get to South Haven frequently. JIM FORCE Wisconsin _/) 6039 ... From: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:46:58 GMT tim_karasek http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2428 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2428 Hi to all. I have recently acquired and am in the process of restoring Nickels and Holman #9198. This is the 5th Lightning I've owned, so I would consider Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:00:24 GMT CRAIG W LANDIS http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2427 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2427 On the same subject if anyone knows of #4910, please contact me, Craig Landis. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:16:05 GMT bobastrove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2426 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2426 Just got an email, someone looking for # 7580, interested in buying it if it can be found. Apparently a family's old boat... Anyway, let me know if you know Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:20:16 GMT Robert Astrove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2425 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2425 I'll need to check the specs, but I think the lightning mast is 28' tall, so you definately need to add wood anyway. Bob Astrove To: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:03:58 GMT Andrew http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2424 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2424 Bob - You might be right that it was not originally a lightning mast. It was off a home built wood boat that rotted away so I cannot say I saw the boat or that Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:09:21 GMT jackson brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2423 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2423 If it were me, I'd trim the foot of the mast– a little off on all sides– to make it fit the hole and leave the rest of the stick alone now. If you needed Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:48 GMT Robert Astrove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2422 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2422 First - let there be no doubt you bought the right kind of boat - a Lightning. I'm currently on my fifth one, have owned one almost continously since 1978. Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:45:18 GMT andrewmouck http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2421 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2421 Hi everyone, I don't mean to take this thread off of its original trajectory but I am in a similar situation and am interested in hearing some opinions. I have Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:59:40 GMT bobastrove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2420 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2420 Just got this from David Thompson (hull # 32). Shown is a rig for helping to remove the bottom trailing cover. The boat shown is not #32, but rather his very Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:50:01 GMT Stanton Kelton http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2419 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2419 Tom: My early fiberglass lightning came with a wooden (but rotten) mast. I built a new one out of sitka spuce , using the parts off the old mast and the plans Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:52:23 GMT Robert Astrove http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2418 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2418 Scott, Let me beg that you document your work w' photo and words, then shrink it down to a two page article for our classic section of Lightning Flashes. I'm Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:53:38 GMT scott@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2417 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2417 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:38:05 GMT jackson brown http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2416 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wooden_Lightning/message/2416 $6K for a wooden mast . . . ! The Assocation plans have a sheet on the boat's spars, including the mast, which, as you know is hollow and comes in tapered or