Saturday, September 1, 2012

Rigging Woes II

It's a beautiful September 1st morning in Nanaimo BC.  Here we are at the dock in nanaimo Harbour with our mainsail draped over the starboard side.




Here is the boom and you can see an empty pad eye.  Right in front of it was another that carried 2 blocks:  one organized both the mainsail outhaul and the furling line, and the other the mainsail sheet, leading the lines back to the cockpit.  You can see the pad eye is missing.



Here is one of the blocks lying at the base of the mast




Here is the real problem:  the resulting jam of the in-mast furling.  With 20 knot winds, the separation of the blocks ended up separating a line (or it could have been the other way around, we don't know) and the jamming of the line in the roller mechanism.






More on the repairs later...

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