Re: Carbon Booms?

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 07:51:05 -0800
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From: Georg Recht <gorecht@earthlink.net-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: Re: Carbon Booms?
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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:
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>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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