Quarantine = Stay at home = Work on Boat

Ok so it has been a long while since I last pulled the boat down to do anything. Part of the issue is after downsizing to a two car garage when we moved to California it becomes a game of Tetris to move everything around so I can get the boat down and work on it. I also still haven’t got a good idea on how I will tow it since I don’t have a place to park another trailer. Also we now have a Beneteau First 30 that keeps my attention on the weekends!


At this point I would say I am pretty much 99% complete and really just have a couple of pieces of hardware to install. I also need to send the headsail to a local loft to put a wire luff in it. I decided to go with a furler since a friend of mine happened to have a used Harken dinghy furler  and he just gave it to me!

I ordered all the lines for the boat and whipped all of the ends. I also decided to go with dyneema shrouds versus wire to be a little lighter and mainly easier on the wooden mast. It was lots of fun doing the eye splices and they turned out really nice!

As with most things it is all about having the right tools for the job!

Today the goal was to get the mast step brackets installed along with some miscellaneous hardware that still needed to go on. I also needed to get an approximate length of the forestay so that I can get the wire luff installed on the jib. Stepping the mast turned out to be a little hairy since it is quite long! I had the boat on the stand and had to put it on the ground in order to get the mast on! (The
Turbo rig is taller than you think!).

Once the mast was on I marked the location of the attachment points to the mast step brackets, drilled the holes and added that gang of blocks

I am still missing a couple of pieces of hardware on the boat which I will need to go to West Marine once things get back to normal.

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