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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dear Wayzata YC Capri 25 sailors,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am a fellow Capri 25 owner from the <st1:place
w:st="on">Great Lakes</st1:place> who has quietly been on your email list for
quite some time, and I have enjoyed watching your program from afar. I now need
to reach out to your group to ask for some advice. I have hull number
CPSK0021M801, which features the old design, aluminum extruded gooseneck mast fitting
that is no longer provided by Catalina Direct, and mine’s shot. As a
reference I have a set of drawings that I think I initially acquired from your
site, or maybe the Catalina Association Forum…which doesn’t appear
to be very up to date anymore…drawing number 24.5-33020-0.  The
recommended Catalina Direct gooseneck retrofit replacement part is not
compatible with the corresponding boom fitting, and because of the construction
of the boom itself, there is incompatibility with the replacement gooseneck casting.
Ideally I would like to find a source where I could just get an exact replacement
part for the mast fitting and be done with it. Is there such a source in your
experience? And if not, has anybody else encountered…and solved…this
problem?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>George Young<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
 style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Capri</span></font></st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> 25 <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Conundrum</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Grosse Pointe, Mi</span></font><font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>

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