Mast Down, on the hard - sanity check before i burn a few grand?

[LeslieTroyer]

Tipsy... you can always pull the lines away form the mast. Maybe to the life line. Or to the bow pulpit. Then no banging. No matter how tight you cinch the lines the wind is relentless and if the halyards are on the mast they will bang.

When I had external halyards on the last boat I would toss them around the spreaders. On this boat I sail with the spinnaker and spare jib halyard on the pole ring and move to bow pulpit when docked and take Main to end of the boom.

Les

 

[dlochner]

fishing line (probably not literally) to pull future enhancements up

Mason's twine works well. Cheap, UV resistant, easy to knot. Small diameter.

When a lot of wire is pulled through a conduit, use some lubrication. The big box stores will have it in the electrical department.

Wouldn't the halyard slap on the mast regardless ? Couldn't you drop the main down then hook the halyard over the hook for reefing then winch a bit of taught into it to keep it from moving as much? Or would that make it like a guitar string... Haha. I might make the lines internal but I'm not sure it's worth the effort on the Pearson.

External halyards slap in the wind. Internal halyards and wire slap from the boat rocking. There are lots of ways to secure the external part of the halyard, take it to the pulpit, or to a life line and secure it. Just move it away from the mast.

The plates are free of even rust stains and are in fact still shiny.

The place to look for corrosion and pitting on chainplates is the part that goes through the deck. SS can develop crevice corrosion (which looks like crevices) in stagnant water. SS needs a supply of oxygen to remain stainless, when it is wet the oxygen in the water is used up and it starts corroding itself. So long as water is flowing with fresh oxygen you're good. Of course you don't want water flowing over the chainplates for obvious reasons, those new cushions will get all wet.

Pulling the chainplates is usually not that difficult, pull them and rebel them. Check to see if the core is sealed inside the holes, if not seal it with some epoxy.

Have you read this thread yet? Scope creep, project creep, "kitchen sink syndrome", no marine term exists | SailboatOwners.com Forums

 

[tipsyravensailing]

No.. but I am a systems and software engineer in my day job. I'm painfully aware of creep. I went from four deliverables on Monday to 9 on Tues. Today? Well.... I'm working my ass off a d I'm up to about 32. The features the first four enabled cascaded...

 

[tipsyravensailing]

Thank you on the tip about the corrosion... I don't usually work in stainless due to it being a truly abysmal metal for knives. I wasn't aware of the oxygen bit. I will be certain to pull and inspect now.