Just checking in to see how you are doing.Thanks for the responses guys. Here is a picture of the plate on the mast, and some more of the carnageMy boat is insured through USAA - which subs Progressive. I'll let you know how it goes. She's out of the marina now and back on the trailer. The mast was pinned and 90% up but we noticed a stay was crooked (on the port side, right over the line stopper for the jib halyard). As we crawled up to see how we were going to address it, tragedy struck.
Many lessons learned on this one. Here are a few for anyone that stumbles across this and needs my very expensive 1 hour of wisdom...
1. Step the mast before you get in the water
2. Use the winch as a failsafe for the jib halyard.
3. Use break away ties to keep things in place as the mast goes up (we used to do this when we sling loaded things under helicopters in the army, and I should have known to do this from the start)
And probably:
4. The irony in the term "stays" is palpable. Those things seem to do anything but stay in one spot as the mast goes up...
Looks like you are getting a handle of what the damage is and if I understand the photos correctly it’s limited to the gin pole, the reinforced area of the mast where that pole fits and I guess a little deformation of the sail “slot” in the picture with the spreaders.
Maybe there is more but it probably could have been much worse.
If you get the replacement parts from Phil and Dave and either fix it yourself or have a competent rigger help you I’m sure you will find yourself out in the water with your captain in no time!!
