Andinista: If you weren't in Chile, I'd find a way to mail it to you. I hope you'd do a better job managing your fore-aft weight distribution than I did when I broke it.

Les: My boat is a late 2000ish Boyer Mk IV and does still have an aluminum boom. I looked at my buddy's new carbon Bimare XJ boom, which was modified by Vector Works to do end-boom sheeting instead of attaching the sheet directly to the sail, and noticed that it had some kind of visible reinforcement (Kevlar?) at the gooseneck and sheet attachment point. In my Mk IV, the sheet currently attaches directly to the sail, but my buddy’s end-boom sheeting system looks like it allows you to better decouple your sheet tension and outhaul tension.

I think I'll try turning the tube into an end-boom-sheeting boom for my Mk IV. Thanks for the idea. It will be interesting to see if it breaks without all of that reinforcement that I noticed on the Bimare XJ boom.