Spars

[cjackson]

When I took over "Althea" last weekend, I noticed some pretty extensive corrosion on the spars. Spreader tips were toasted, and the boom has a nice bulging spot at the head fitting joint. Spreader tips seem pretty straight forward, I should be able to find a local machine shop to spin me up some new ones from the old samples (unless someone has another suggestion), however in the case of the boom I'm stumped. I've contacted the OEM spar supplier from the manual, and also a few others...and of course no one can match the original extrusion. So here I sit with these perfectly good heads and I can't get an aluminum stick to fit between them...I've though of shortening the boom by a few inches but I'm a little trepidatious about sawing away on my Alberg beauty without asking some of you knowledgable fellows first...so how 'bout it?