My boat is just kicking my butt this year.
Kinked back stay (replaced), bad 2nd battery, no power getting to radio, fw tank needs to be replaced, 2nd reef is screwed up...now it looks like the mast compression post chock is worse than expected.
I took advantage of a beautiful day with light air to finally put my sails up. I was thrilled because I put my 135 up on the furler solo using a couple of Hood feeders left behind by the previous owner (PO). If I had folded the sail properly I could have done it from the cockpit. Awesome. I set up the lazy jacks, put the main on and tried to run the reefing lines. Hmmm...the PO said he never used the second reef and now I know why...the line is about ten feet too short and the mast mounted cheek block is falling off the mast because it was mounted with wood screws instead of tapped. There is a set of tapped holes below it that are empty...they clearly put the block in a location where it interfered with the main halyard as it exits the mast at the base.
Looking at the base of the mast I noted a hump in the deck port front and a slight depression port aft. @$^&*. One of the PO's drilled right through the deck to run a mast wire with no water tight connection. I siliconed it again to seal it up, but intend to replace it with a proper fitting and have been concerned about water in the core, although it metered out pretty well during the survey. I grabbed my handy dandy plastic handled screwdriver and played woodpecker on my deck, tapping in the area and listening. Nope. Thankfully the deck still, amazingly, seems sound. Just bumpy. No doubt about it...mast has to come down...sole has to come up (needs replacing anyway)...mast compression post block must be replaced...etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...
It also may be that we cranked the backstay a bit too much, but it doesn't seem terribly tight. That compression post block must be rotten port aft. The shower drain is right next to it.
That can't be good can it?
Kinked back stay (replaced), bad 2nd battery, no power getting to radio, fw tank needs to be replaced, 2nd reef is screwed up...now it looks like the mast compression post chock is worse than expected.
I took advantage of a beautiful day with light air to finally put my sails up. I was thrilled because I put my 135 up on the furler solo using a couple of Hood feeders left behind by the previous owner (PO). If I had folded the sail properly I could have done it from the cockpit. Awesome. I set up the lazy jacks, put the main on and tried to run the reefing lines. Hmmm...the PO said he never used the second reef and now I know why...the line is about ten feet too short and the mast mounted cheek block is falling off the mast because it was mounted with wood screws instead of tapped. There is a set of tapped holes below it that are empty...they clearly put the block in a location where it interfered with the main halyard as it exits the mast at the base.
Looking at the base of the mast I noted a hump in the deck port front and a slight depression port aft. @$^&*. One of the PO's drilled right through the deck to run a mast wire with no water tight connection. I siliconed it again to seal it up, but intend to replace it with a proper fitting and have been concerned about water in the core, although it metered out pretty well during the survey. I grabbed my handy dandy plastic handled screwdriver and played woodpecker on my deck, tapping in the area and listening. Nope. Thankfully the deck still, amazingly, seems sound. Just bumpy. No doubt about it...mast has to come down...sole has to come up (needs replacing anyway)...mast compression post block must be replaced...etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...
It also may be that we cranked the backstay a bit too much, but it doesn't seem terribly tight. That compression post block must be rotten port aft. The shower drain is right next to it.
That can't be good can it?