Mast rebuild 6

It’s done! Well, the major rebuilding is done now to install all of the hardware. First is the top of the mast where the straps that the rigging attaches to and the sheave box rests. This is very “fussy” woodwork for the straps must fight perfectly to handle the pressures that the rig will put on the mast and the sheave box must be put right through the top of the mast, another difficult thing to do. I started by marking a rough outline where the strapping should go.

Then I slowly cut the wood back until the straps fight tightly.


Then I drilled a series of holes through the mast and slowly chiseled the wood out until the sheave box fit snugly into the mast.



It doesn’t look like much but it took an entire 8 hour day to do this work.