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• Wooden spars fail with a bang!
  • One of my wood spreaders failed just outside the stainless socket too
  • OUCH!!!! But they sure did a beautiful job with it afterwards
  • They clearly hired a crack crew for repairs!! Couldn't resist. Lucky no one was impaled.
  • Wood mast failure.
  • hmmm, wondering if the epoxy caused a hard spot where the wood worked on until it broke. Hmmm.
    • I don't think so.
      • At any rate, if you look closely at the old vs new spreader sockets,