Aluminum boom extension piece with Carbon Boom - Bad Idea?

[nanmoo]

My carbon wave boom has seen little use as it won't fit my 6.0 sail and I'd rather not cart around two booms. But tonight I discovered the extension of my Al slalom boom is the same diameter but a few inches longer and thus able to fit my 6.0. Also, the profile of the wave boom is a couple inches thinner, thus having the same effect as shortening my lines a bit which will be welcome.

So good idea or bad?

[KUS]

My experience: You always want two booms, the overlap covers any field breakage usually and permits rigging two sets of gear. Also you generally go from a small wave boom shape with longer lines to a slalom shape to permit space for the larger sails with shorter lines. As far as mixing the two, u will turn your carbon boom into an alu boom, no issue with that but the larger the sail the stiffer your boom should be, you are going the opposite direction. As well the larger sail will likely rub on the wave boom.
But then, what do I know

[nanmoo]

The fire is pretty damn flat, I think it will fit fairly ok. Thanks Kus.

PS - I would have to own two sets of harness lines and two mast extensions (which I don't) to rig two sails at once!

[nanmoo]

well now I went ahead and broke one of them monkeying around with it... damn.

Anyone have a chinook wave boom that will reach 186cm in great shape they want to get rid of?

[downwind dave]

you are backwards if u ask me, you want a big stiff carbon slalom boom and if youre going to have an alu boom it should be the small wave one. you should also put the dollars into what rig you will use most.. so thats two rules you have broken. just to help you out i can buy your carbon wave boom.
anyhoo, running any boom at max extension is pretty much always a bad idea. you will probably find your nice carbon boom feels like a bungee cord.

wait.. you broke it!?

[nanmoo]

Naw, I broke the aluminum one!!!

I just want one boom that I'll use unless I break it, the carbon one won't fit my 6.0, so I either have to fix this Alu one or buy a new one that hopefully is a more wave profile but fits the 6.0. The slalom Alu one I have has a pretty wide profile, and lets face it, who likes fat chicks?

[Windsurfish]

Hey Nanmoo,

You should carry two booms, even if they are the same. Kus is right on this - besides, some fools I know have 3-4 and more booms....
I like the hotsails playmate Al booms. one piece in front, one in the tail, no rivets, not flexy, narrow profile. Booms break, and I earned a nickname of boom crusher for a while when I was learning to jump - I broke 2 Al and 3 carbon booms in one month. It really sucks to not have a boom at the beach when you snap one, trust me.

Happy shopping!

[nanmoo]

Where did you pick up the playmate from?

[winddoctor]

Where did you pick up the playmate from?

I get mine at the Mansion. I find a smoking jacket helps.

[mortontoemike]

I have 9 booms! A basement full. That's at least 4 too many. I am going to bring 2 or 3 to Nitinaht the week of July 6th and sell them cheap.

[Windsurfish]

I ordered my playmates online through a bulk order last yr - the supermodels looked even better, but were too skinny for my sails....

[downwind dave]

I get mine at the Mansion. I find a smoking jacket helps.

well played sir!

[KUS]

One piece ALU tail, one piece head, fit both RDM and SDM masts, have both sizes in stock, $155CAN all in....only here for tonight if you want one then away for a while, woohooo

One carbon small slalom/big wave left too. $325

[JL]

Enjoy your Oregon adventure ... Looking forward to your reports.

[nanmoo]

New Chinook boom felt nice out there today, the slimmer profile definately makes a difference. Though the biggest impact was probably dropping down from 28" lines to 24"'s. Thinking mine were long I took a look at winddocs and those suckers must be 35"+!?!?!