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[quote=Edchris177][quote]You repeatedly said "grams" and "weighs", but a gram is not a unit of weight, it is a unit of mass.[/quote]
You are quite correct, my apologies. It is always a difficult choice when you don't have any idea of the background of your readers. Do you stick with completely correct terminology, & perhaps the message gets lost, or do you interject laymans terms, knowing they are not technically correct, but will get the message to all readers.
In this case I meant to enclose "weigh" in quotations to indicate the ambiguity. I'm sitting in Beijing, been up all night, & yes, I should have worded some of that differently.
I don't think you can delete a post. To prevent "doubles", only click SUBMIT once. It looks like nothing happened, but if you then click on the HOME button, you will see your reply posted. It seems to grind away for longer than it used to, leading one to think it didn't post.
If you really want a project, you could pull the masthead & base, but I would save that for winter, if at all. Just wipe the perimeter with acetone, then apply a thin smear of marine silicone. It won't leak. The 5.7 mast will go under to about the hound, unless you turtle. As bear noted above, that may not seal something like the hound. Hopefully, when it was installed they put a dab of tape, or sealant on the underside. I couldn't be bothered drilling out Monel rivets to see. I just added a thin bead of silicone around the edge of the hound & the diamond tangs, it's still there 5 years later.[/quote]

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