Teflon mast wear strips

Hi,

I notice that my lower mast, which is only nine months old, is showing quite a lot of wear at the bottom two inches at the front and the same on the back of the mast at just below deck level (same for the mast tube). Nothing really unusual here, caused by sand, grit etc.. and sailing with lots of vang/kicker. I've seen a few posts on TLF about Teflon wear stips to protect both the mast and mast step from this type of wear, here in the UK we can buy Teflon disks for the base, but not...

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