One question; were the wiring connectors stowed in the mast base? I'm going to have ours taken down next month during the bottom work, and so far I haven't found any disconnects below the deck or anywhere else, so I'm guessing that once the mast is lifted a bit they will be accessible. I called Catalina support, they can't answer. They ship the new boats with the mast down, and whatever dealer or boatyard commissions the boat puts the disconnects where they think best.
I want to get new standing rigging, repair or replace the foredeck light, and replace the halyard sheaves since the main is getting harder to hoist and I've cleaned up everything else I can think of in that system. Replacing the sheaves requires dropping the mast to remove the upper fitting, the sheaves are buried inside. That fitting has to come off, and I've talked to various yards and riggers and no one has a workable idea for doing it with the mast up.
I know this mast has been off in the past, the previous owner had the boat trucked from Georgia to California.
