Demasted!

Well ok, I actually meant to do it.  The end of last season I kept having more and more difficulty with my jib. It became progressively harder to pull up until at last the old (original?) pulley at the masthead grenaded spraying the hull with the fibrous plastic it was made of.

And here's the best part, my facebook post was mocked by Capt'n Fatty! I feel like I've arrived!

Flash forward to a mere 5 months later and I've finally dropped the mast to replace my ratty halyards and add a couple of new pulleys while retaining the original over the mast double pulley system as a spare. (Mainly because I can't figure out how to take it apart and inspect it. Plus it still works fantastic.

Obviously I did a really crappy job controlling the drop of the mast as it twisted going down, cracked one of my teak handholds on my shroud and fell on the club dock.


My avian peanut gallery wasn't impressed.

Monday I'll be back out on the boat (my day off) and I'll replace the halyards and get ready to put the mast back up in it's fully erect position!