Pant Respiration! Mast Awlgrip Problems?!?

[mishnish]

Hi Tim!!

Your recent unfortunate spell with the Awlgrip on Glissando's mast got me thinking... I noticed in your pictures that you placed the mast and its supports on the lawn and then left it overnight with the plastic sheeting over it...

Now, during the day, plants photosynthesize, so they are converting carbon dioxide and water and other nutrients found in the soil into sugars plus oxygen...

But during the night, the opposite happens, they use free oxygen from the air and the sugars that they have stored inside to make carbon dioxide and water.

So during the night, a load of vapourised water is given off from your lawn, becoming trapped by the plastic sheeting, and condensing onto the cold surface of your mast...

Thats my theory!!

Chris Dowie
Student of Small Craft Design
University of Newcastle Upon Tyne
England!

[Tim on the road]

Chris,

Good thoughts, and with much merit! Whatever the cause, the problem happened, and I'm all done with this outside work. But your theory has as much credence as any that I've heard!

Tim