[cedoyle]

Morgan N/M 454

I've owned PROMISE, 1982 Morgan N/M 45, for sometime and went through all the mast issues among other things. Feel free to contact me. There are a couple of options if the repair has not been made.

PROMISE is currently birthed near Baltimore.

 

[cedoyle]

Mast issue

I've recently purchased a 1983 N/M 45' and while we had a great time delivering it from Lake Erie to Lake Michigan I just noticed a "settling" in the main cabin floor near the forward head. In "cedoyle's" posting he mentioned a mast issue. I was wondering what the problem was and what was the fix. Any info anyone could forward to me would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
VP719

A couple things about the N/M and her IOR hull. She's flat on the bottom...so what happens is when the mast is compressing down she tends to flex a bit. You can do a couple things the offset this issue. Make a tie to deck from mast base to mast ring with a piece of rod riggiing the same size as the standing rigging or a bit larger. When the mast compresses it then tries to compress deck at bulkhead. Second you can remove mast and floor as I did and completely rebuild the mast step. I had to do this because of some water found its way into the step softening it. I also tied my mast base into the grid system so the compression is distributed throughout the hull as it should have been. If you go the the route that I did it a lot of work but it addressed the problem completly. I contacted an old Morgan Engineer and was told that this is what they did on the raciing versions to eliminate the issue. The real problem was that the grid system was not made high enough at the mast base to take the compressions on a flat hull.....after thousands of cycles the grid would actually start to break their tabs. But again this only happened on the racing versions of the boats.