mast base plate

I need to get the mast lowered on my Laguna 26. It doesn’t have the normal setup of a plate welded onto the base of the mast with a hinge point on the aft side. Instead, it has a through bolt about an inch up, going through a SS bracket which itself is attached to the cabin top. The mast...

I need help on electrical connection from mast to deck. Bought new plug and receptacle from bwy and now on to mast wiring which has 4 wires, 2 coming out from holes on opposite sides of mast near base. Both have male/female connectors to each other but how do you get 4 wires, two plugs into one...

I am the proud new owner of a hunter 26 swing keel sailboat. I purchase the boat this spring and had the marina step the mast because I had no idea how to do it otherwise, this being a new boat to me. I recently noticed that the mast Tabernacle is cracked. Has anyone done the job of replacing...

Just bought a1989 Capri. There was a pin in the luff channel at the base of the mast which I thought was welded to the base plate. Turns out it wasn't and it is lost. Can anyone tell me what it was for? I think it may have been a filler/support to reinforce the sides of the mast base when the...

Dang, I broke the hinge (flange) off at the bottom-mast plate through which you place the pin that attaches the mast to the plate on the deck (you might call this plate on the deck a tabernacle, but it is just really a plate with two flanges sticking up that have holes to match the hole in the...