The mast finally went up last Thursday.I had to rush to take the boat from Yacht Haven to the Marina Shipyard in Los Alamitos bay. The rigger and his crew wanted to be in a “clean environment” to take the jib furler apart and change the forestay. Once everything was ready it took 2.5 hours for the crane operator to be ready since they were still moving boats in and out of the water.

In a way the wait was good for something since the rigger realized, 2 hours into the wait, that one section of the furler had been installed backward! You could not make up these stories! Anyway, everything was dismantled on the spot and the section correctly installed.

Finally the crane operator came and the mast was stepped on the boat.

Here comes the mast!

After that I “sailed” (really motored) back to the marina just in time to go to LAX to pick-up the sister-in-law + husband and their 2 children.

The new rigging is really shiny but it still needs to be tuned we should happen this week.

The picture below shows the top of the mast with the new navigation/anchor LED light, the new VHF antenna (with RG213 coaxial all the way to the radio and without any connector), the new socket for the wind instrument and the new rod for the wind indicator (aka windex).

The top of the mast