Mast Repairs for Sea Puppy

I’ve known that there was something wrong with the main halyard sheeve in the top of the mast for a while.. It has been hard to pull the mainsail up and the halyard has been gradually fraying where it goes over the sheeve.. Well we (Richard, BIlly, Breck and I) pulled the mast down today and found that the sheeve is totally gone. The halyard has been being pulled up over the bare stainless shaft of the bolt that went through the sheeve..

The sheeve that was there was a used one that Richard had around and installed this past November not long before I bought Sea Puppy from Patty. The moral of the story is not to put old used sheeves that you have to modify in as replacement parts.. I bought replacement sheeves for the mast and boom a few months ago and now that the mast is down will replace all of them.

here is picture of base of mast with new sheeves in.

While the mast is down

1. I am also going to run the new topping lift internal to the mast and back to the cabin top.
2. I will run the 2nd reef line internal to the boom.
3. Install the vhf antenna and coax on and in the mast
4. install cheek blocks under spreaders on mast for lazy jack system
5. install small blocks under spreaders for running up flags or lamps etc..
6. maybe install new end of the boom so I can switch from slab reefing to single line reefing..