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camp guy · 04-18-2012, 08:32 AM

Seeing is believing (I guess), but let's remember that bridge clearances are given at high water, and mast lengths are measured end to end. This having been said, the mast sets into the boat maybe about 6 ft below the deck (leaving 74 feet over the deck, and, if the boat passed under the 65 ft bridge at low tide (say, maybe 5 ft tide), then the clearance would be 70 ft, so the boat and mast would have to make it under with 74 ft over the water. Still, a very clever bit of boatmanship.

Maybe some of the math whizzes can calculate the angle of healing necessarty to clear the bridge.

04-18-2012, 08:32 AM	#7
camp guy Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: formerly Winter Harbor, still Wolfeboro Posts: 1,136 Thanks: 284 Thanked 480 Times in 271 Posts	80 ft mast under a 65 ft bridge... Seeing is believing (I guess), but let's remember that bridge clearances are given at high water, and mast lengths are measured end to end. This having been said, the mast sets into the boat maybe about 6 ft below the deck (leaving 74 feet over the deck, and, if the boat passed under the 65 ft bridge at low tide (say, maybe 5 ft tide), then the clearance would be 70 ft, so the boat and mast would have to make it under with 74 ft over the water. Still, a very clever bit of boatmanship. Maybe some of the math whizzes can calculate the angle of healing necessarty to clear the bridge.