Paul, The last that I knew you were in the south of France, with plans to go to Sicily. I recommend that you contact the original manufacturer of the standing rigging and the standing rigging supplier

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Bonjour Paul, If you are based in south of France, I will recommend a company called Russo Yachting in La Seyne sur Mer, I just replaced the rigging, electric furlers and also new paint on the mast an

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Hi Paul, Where are you located? Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376 Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

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Hello Paul, I know a great rigger in NZ. He changed my rigging in 2 days at very reasonable cost He also rigs most racing vessels in the Bay of Islands area. Kind regards, Jean-Pierre Germain, Eleuthe

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Hello, my name is Paul and I own an Amel 55 #17 (Fortuna II) Commissioned in February 2013. According to Pantaenius Insurance the standing rigging will require replacement for insurance purposes by Fe

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Nick, It is hard to believe that an internet site anywhere fails to register the dns "www.website.fr" as well as the "website.fr" http://www.sparcraft.fr works but http://sparcraft.fr does not. The fu

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Sparecraft doesnt show the ball and socket style in their catalog, however they show a cylindrical style with a socket- it seems to me that if one were to buy these- replacing both the joining ends of

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Hello, It in fact http://www.sparcraft.fr All the best, Jean Boucharlat Formerly SM 232

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Hello Bill You might want to check the web site address (typo error ?) ,”spacecraft.fr” doesn’t exist but “sparecraft.fr” is still in activity but no sign of the poll ends there.... Kindest regards Ni

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With you on that Ken. Danny SM 299 Ocean Pearl

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To all, First thing, everyone that had the ball breaking problem with their pole systems, had their poles where they didn't belong (no pun intended). My previous owner also blew out a ball on the Paci

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I was also advised to ensure I use Monel rivets when replacing the part. Regards Steve Dusk S/M 378

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Hi We had two made up by sparcraft in South Africa when our pole was damaged kept one as spare, we just gave them the broken one and they replicated it their machine shop in a couple of hours . Regard

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Excellent suggestion Bill. Thank you all who weighed in on support of this topic. Kevin

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Hi Kent, thanks for the story. You did everything right but still got caught. The forward block blowing saved much more serious damage. Shows the value of a weak point with lesser damage potential. Ra

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Kevin, If I were you and because this is the only part of the pole system that will suffer from UV degradation, I would take the other "good" ball off of the short pole and bring it to a machine shop

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I checked with Sparcraft and they only made some of the components of the Amel spinnaker pole system. They had never seen the ball joint fitting before. I did provide pics along with my email to Amel.

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A few years ago I was sailing N in the Gulf Stream in 20kts from astern. In the middle of the night with no warning (it was a moonless night with no lightning observed) we were suddenly in 35+ kts fro

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Here is a snippet from my book. Pole ends were made by FranceSpar, now www.SpaceCraft.fr, also in the US www.sparcraft-us.com. I am not sure if that company made the entire system for Amel. Amel recen

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Hi Folks, This message concerns me. It comes after Delos reported on a near disaster while sailing downwind in gale force winds. As in this case they had the headsail poled out. Both vessels had bad o

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